MyMovies: Must See (Picks 10)
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- DirectorHiromasa YonebayashiStarsBridgit MendlerAmy PoehlerWill ArnettThe Clock family are four-inch-tall people who live anonymously in another family's residence, borrowing simple items to make their home. Life changes for the Clocks when their teenage daughter Arrietty is discovered.91) I loved this latest Anime' from Studio Ghibli!
- DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsTatsuya NakadaiAkira TeraoJinpachi NezuIn Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other...and him.92) After "Seven Samurai" (1954), "Ran" is Akira Kurosawa's second-greatest movie, and the best movie he made in his third "era." It's a sweeping, bloody epic about madness, death, greed and of course, "chaos"...
- DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsToshirô MifuneMachiko KyôMasayuki MoriThe rape of a bride and the murder of her samurai husband are recalled from the perspectives of a bandit, the bride, the samurai's ghost and a woodcutter.93) The greatest mystery to ever out of Japan, from the master Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa!
- DirectorNeil JordanStarsStephen ReaJaye DavidsonForest WhitakerA British soldier kidnapped by the IRA soon befriends one of his captors, who then becomes drawn into the soldier's world.94) A powerful and complex psychological thriller that is yet unmatched by 2012 standards!
- DirectorGeorge WaggnerStarsClaude RainsWarren WilliamLon Chaney Jr.Larry Talbot returns to his father's castle in Wales and meets a beautiful woman. One fateful night, Talbot escorts her to a local carnival where they meet a mysterious gypsy fortune teller.95) The original 1941 "The Wolf Man" is the one that started it all for me, the tragic tale of the legendary "Wolf Man," the greatest of the classic, old-school movie monsters!
- DirectorSidney LumetStarsFaye DunawayWilliam HoldenPeter FinchA television network cynically exploits a deranged former anchor's ravings and revelations about the news media for its own profit, but finds that his message may be difficult to control.96) More powerful, and more timely than ever! Reality TV is our new poison!
- DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsMartin SheenMarlon BrandoRobert DuvallA U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.97) Not much a fan of Francis Ford Coppola, but damn, his own personal Heart of Darkness - "Apocalypse Now" - is one powerful war film you should not go to your grave without seeing first!
- DirectorPaul VerhoevenStarsMichael DouglasSharon StoneGeorge DzundzaA violent police detective investigates a brutal murder that might involve a manipulative and seductive novelist.98) Quite possibly the "hottest" movie of the 1990s? I think so!
- DirectorTrey ParkerStarsTrey ParkerMatt StoneMary Kay BergmanWhen Stan Marsh and his friends go see an R-rated movie, they start cursing and their parents think that Canada is to blame.9) One of the perfect time capsules for an era; amazingly offensive and provocative 14 years later!
- DirectorDavid Gordon GreenStarsSeth RogenJames FrancoGary ColeA process server and his marijuana dealer wind up on the run from hitmen and a corrupt police officer after he witnesses his dealer's boss murder a competitor while trying to serve papers on him.100) Plain and simple, an action-comedy about the best of buds; simply hilarious!