Every superhero movie has been chasing the high (and box office success) of Burton’s Batman ever since. Burton’s casting choice proved to be dynamite as well as his choice for The Joker: Jack Nicholson, who delivered one of his most iconic performances in the now-classic film. Starring: Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Kim BasingerĪfter previously collaborating on Beetlejuice, director Tim Burton tapped Michael Keaton as an unlikely choice to play the lead in this Batman movie, a gothic new take on the Caped Crusader who was best known at the time for the campy Adam West TV series from the ’60s. Jackson in one of his career-defining roles, the film cemented Tarantino as a true cinematic auteur as the writer/director showcased his knack for building a sprawling drama with an impeccable cast that was unlike anything Hollywood had seen before. In the star-studded Pulp Fiction, writer/director Quentin Tarantino weaves together several darkly hilarious crime stories unfolding all across Los Angeles. Jackson, Uma Thurman, Harvey Keitel, Ving Rhames, Bruce Willis As HAL begins to malfunction, the mission goes dangerously awry and the search for answers to humanity’s greatest questions becomes entangled in a battle with a seemingly rogue intelligence. After unlocking a secret message from the monolith, astronauts David Bowman (Keir Dullea) and Frank Poole (Gary Lockwood) set off on a mission guided by the powerful and ominous computer system known as HAL-9000. Clarke novel, tells the tale of a monolith found buried on the moon and its mysterious connections to humanity’s past, present, and future. Starring: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvesterīefore Star Wars exploded the sci-fi genre on the big screen, there was Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece, 2001: A Space Odyssey. After being forced to move to a new region of Pandora, the family encounters an ancient threat that puts them on the path to war with the humans, who have not ceased their efforts to strip the planet of its resources. Set 16 years later, The Way of Water catches up with Jake (Sam Worthington) and Neytiri (Zoe Saldana) who are now parents to a sizable family of biological and adopted children. In this sequel to the groundbreaking smash hit, Avatar, director James Cameron once again delivers a stunning visual experience on the alien world of Pandora. Starring: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Kate Winslet As a bonus, this prestige Best Picture winner also doubles as a ram-don recipe. You’d expect nothing less from the visionary behind Snowpiercer. Superbly acted and brilliantly devised, it’s a darkly entertaining story as much about deception as it is about the gigantic, un-jumpable gap between the Haves and Have Nots. Winner of just about any major award you can name, Bong’s twisting drama features a poor family that infiltrates a wealthy one by pushing out their staff and replacing them until they’re living a borrowed high life. It’s peak ’90s cinema firing on all cylinders.Ĭast: Song Kang-ho, Lee Sun-kyun, Cho Yeo-jeong, Choi Woo-shik, Park So-dam, and Jang Hye-jin It’s just damn good from top to the bottom. Part powerful human drama, part compelling crime mystery, there’s a reason The Shawshank Redemption routinely pops up on “Best Of” lists. Using his wits, Andy enters a dangerous game with the morally scrupulous and dictatorial Shawshank prison warden that will either end in Andy’s freedom or crushed beneath the systemic gears of the penal system. After being sentenced to life in prison for a crime he didn’t commit, Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) forms a bond with fellow inmate Red (Morgan Freeman) as the two navigate a world of brutality, despair, and corruption in this gripping 1940s period drama based on a novella by Stephen King.
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