Blade Runner
Opinion: Theatrical cut is best.
Logan’s Run
Future utopia? Dystopia? Hopeful ending.
Silent Running
Forests in space. For real.
Next:
Hugh Grant Romcoms
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Grant’s kind of a dick
Bridget Jones’s Diary
Grant is really a dick
Two Weeks Notice
Grant is a younger Trump
Next: Hugh Grant in non-romcom roles
Privileged
His screen debut, in 1982
Cloud Atlas
Plays several roles (one scary)
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Cameo as Benoit Blanc’s sweetie
Next up:
Favorite mysteries
The Ring
Yes, a mystery is unraveled.
Se7en
Seven Deadly Sins: Murder metaphors.
The Usual Suspects
Heist goes awry; unreliable narrator.
Movies Set in Eastern or Central Europe
A Serbian Film (Serbia)
You don’t want to know.
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Romania)
Woman seeks an illegal abortion.
The Death of Mister Lazarescu (Romania)
Systemic neglect in nationalized healthcare.
Movies Set in Africa
District 9
Meet the Prawns, African style
Hotel Rwanda
Refugees check in, and survive
Hatari
Baby elephants walking! How cute!
Next: More movies set in Africa
Out of Africa
Aristocrat moves to Kenya, uh-oh.
Gorillas in the Mist
Life of famed primate researcher.
The Gods Must Be Crazy
Tribesman finds discarded Coke bottle.
Movies set in Australia/New Zealand
Quigley Down Under
Selleck carries a “super” rifle
The Man from Snowy River
Beautiful scenes of Australian landscapes
Crocodile Dundee
Got everyone saying “G’day, mate”
Next: Movies set behind the Iron Curtain
Good Bye, Lenin!
Concealing Communism’s collapse from Mom
The Lives of Others
Stasi agent is terrible nibnose
Bridge of Spies
Explores secret American, Soviet deals
Next up:
Spy comedies
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
Spoof of James Bond films.
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
Fat Bastard enters the canon.
Austin Powers: In Goldmember
Star killed his career afterwards.
Earnest, non-Bond spy films
The Falcon and the Snowman
Teens pass secrets to Soviets
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
The return of George Smiley
Ronin (1998)
De Niro’s caught between two factions
Next: Robert De Niro movies
Taxi Driver
Nutty cab driver, zany hijinks
Angel Heart
Don’t work for Mr. Cyphre!
Limitless
Plays smart, ruthless investment tycoon
Next up:
Movies about high finance
Trading Places
A swindle involving orange juice.
The Wolf of Wall Street
Sex, blow, money, the 80s.
Dumb Money
Reddit manipulates stock for lulz.
Movies where the characters are solidly lower middle class (but not desperately poor)
The Slums of Beverly Hills
Arkin leads family of hustlers
Napoleon Dynamite
Uncle Rico lives in van
Little Miss Sunshine
Get her to the pageant
Next: Rich kids’ lives
Cruel Intentions
Did she really offer anal?
Traffic
Additction affects rich people too.
Richie Rich
Not the best comics adaptation.
Comic book and graphic novel adaptations.
Tank Girl
Lori Petty cosplays steam punk
Hellboy
Demons and Nazis? Oh, my…
The Dark Knight
Batman turns gritty and dark
Next: The many reboots of Batman