Scarface (1932)
Howard Hawks's 1932 pre-Code Chicago gangster classic. Paul Muni as the Capone-adjacent Tony Camonte.
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2000sBee Movie (2007)
DreamWorks 2007 Jerry Seinfeld animated comedy. The meme afterlife has substantially exceeded the original commercial reception.
2000sAmerican Gangster (2007)
Ridley Scott's 2007 Frank Lucas biopic. Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe in parallel protagonist tracks.
2010sDredd (2012)
Dredd is the rare comic book adaptation that fully understood its source material. Alex Garland wrote, between his collaborations.
1990sStarship Troopers (1997)
Starship Troopers is one of the most misunderstood films of the 1990s and one of the most accomplished political satires in mainstream science fiction. The adaptation is loose in ways that have generated decades of argument.
2010sSnowpiercer (2013)
Bong directed and co-wrote with Kelly Masterson. The film made approximately eighty-six million dollars worldwide on a forty million dollar budget.
American DecayRoboCop (1987, 1990, 1993, 2014)
RoboCop is the satirical action franchise that established the cybernetic-cop subgenre and one of the most accomplished critiques of late-1980s corporate. Paul Verhoeven directed the 1987 original.
2010sShe’s Out of My League (2010)
Jim Field Smith directed in his feature debut. The film made approximately fifty million dollars worldwide on a twenty million dollar budget.
2000sLegally Blonde (2001)
Legally Blonde is one of the best comedies of the early 2000s and the film that defined Reese Witherspoon's career for the next decade. Witherspoon plays Elle Woods, a sorority president and fashion merchandising major at CULA who follows her…
2010sBad Teacher (2011)
Bad Teacher is the R-rated comedy where Cameron Diaz plays a public middle school teacher who hates her students. Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky wrote, both veterans of the American version of The Office.
1980sGallipoli (1981)
Gallipoli is one of the great anti-war films and one of the great Australian films. Mel Gibson and Mark Lee play Frank Dunne and Archy Hamilton, two young men from Western Australia who enlist in the Light Horse for different…
2000sA Knight’s Tale (2001)
A Knight's Tale is what happens when a writer-director decides to make a medieval film while refusing to take medieval films seriously. Brian Helgeland wrote and directed.