The Moonrise Kingdom is a 2012 American film directed by Wes Anderson and written by Anderson, Roman Coppola, and Jason Schwartzman. The film stars Bruce Willis, Bill Murray, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton, Jason Schwartzman, Edward Norton, and Bob Balaban. It follows two children who are left alone on an island after their parents’ divorce. The…
Tootsie is a 1982 American romantic comedy film directed by Robert Greenwald and written by Alvin Sargent. The film stars John Travolta, Dustin Hoffman, and George C. Scott and features Mandy Patinkin, Don Knotts, Madeline Kahn, Dan Aykroyd, Rosalind Cash and Sigourney Weaver in supporting roles. If you’ve ever seen Tootsie (1982), then you will…
Little Miss Sunshine is a 2006 American comedy-drama film written by Diablo Cody and directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris. The film was inspired by the 1995 novel Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, with the screenplay written in 1997. It follows the relationship between two families in 1970s southern California: one of the…
Agora (Spanish: Gora) is a 2009 English-language Spanish historical drama film directed and written by Alejandro Amenábar and Mateo Gil. Rachel Weisz stars as Hypatia, a mathematician, philosopher, and astronomer in late fourth-century Roman Egypt who studies the inadequacies of the geocentric Ptolemaic system and the heliocentric model that challenges it. In the midst of…
Amélie is a love story about an aspiring woman, Amélie Poulain, who longs to be noticed and appreciated. To do so, she volunteers to help a rich couple, the Baron and Baroness von Rosenberg, by helping with the housework and making sure that they have everything they need. The baroness is elderly and no longer…
If you’re looking for a movie to watch this weekend, you can’t go wrong with Snow White and the Huntsman. Snow White and the Huntsman is about a girl who escapes her evil stepmother, steps into a land of magic and danger, and learns to embrace her true self. If you want to know what…
This film is considered one of the greatest achievements in silent film and was recently selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. It is a classic story about an orphaned boy who finds his place in the world through friendship and family. An emerging platform for classic film fans, The Kid (1921)…
“The Kid” is a silent film from 1921 that tells the story of a small boy who comes to live with his aunt and uncle after his parents are killed in an accident. The boy, played by Lon Chaney, does not get along with his aunt and uncle and often gets into trouble for playing…
In the 2000 film O Brother, Where Art Thou?, the plot revolves around the escape of three convicts who have escaped from a chain gang in the South. The story revolves around three fugitives trying to find their way back home while being pursued by various bounty hunters and law enforcement officials. The word “thunder,”…