Breaking Away
They have no repertoire of bromantic chest-bumps.
Field Notes
Before analysis can begin, we must venture out and collect data.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Conveying emotional idealism via cluttered, awkward blocking.
Harold and Maude
She is wisdom, love, joy.
Repo Man
Otto will transcend the far too limiting punk-hippie dichotomy.
The Big Sleep
The hardboiled protagonist has developed a sentimentality-proof exoskeleton.
Tender Mercies
A chastened, bewildered, deeply grateful vector of southern-fried redemptive forces.
Future Peril
How to talk to people 10,000 years in the future.
District 9
He’s a prawn trapped in a net.
Goodfellas
They refuse to live like “schnooks.”
Virus X
A meme that has propagated from one pulp genre to another…
The Little Princess
“One soldier more or less doesn’t make any difference, you know.”
The Lady Vanishes
“Bless me, what an unpleasant journey!”
In Love with the Actress
"She was playing a part that I could understand."
Wild in the Streets
Shelley Winters struggles to close the generation gap.