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The Boat that Rocked (2009) #160 Remove Directed by Richard Curtis. With Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Nick Frost, Michael Hadley. A band of rogue DJs that captivated Britain, playing the music that defined a generation and standing up to a government that wanted classical music, and nothing else, on the airwaves. Radio Caroline - Pirate Radio |
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Florence Foster Jenkins (2016) #982 Remove Directed by Stephen Frears. With Meryl Streep, Hugh Grant, Simon Helberg, Rebecca Ferguson. The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice. |
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The Imitation Game (2014) #553 Remove Directed by Morten Tyldum. With Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Allen Leech. During World War II, mathematician Alan Turing tries to crack the enigma code with help from fellow mathematicians. |
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Downsizing (2017) #1138 Remove Directed by Alexander Payne. With Matt Damon, Christoph Waltz, Hong Chau, Kristen Wiig. A social satire in which a man realizes he would have a better life if he were to shrink himself to five inches tall, allowing him to live in wealth and splendor. |
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Circle of Eight (2009) #298 Remove Directed by Stephen Cragg. With John Bishop, Kirk Bovill, Ryan Doom, Austin Highsmith. Jessica moves into a loft on the eighth floor of a Los Angeles apartment building called The Dante. The other tenants all seem friendly at first, but when she starts witnessing horrible deaths, she must team up with her neighbor Evan (Doom) to solve the mystery -- and uncover her own connection to the place. |
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Gandhi (1982) #524 Remove Directed by Richard Attenborough. With Ben Kingsley, John Gielgud, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox. Gandhi's character is fully explained as a man of nonviolence. Through his patience, he is able to drive the British out of the subcontinent. And the stubborn nature of Jinnah and his commitment towards Pakistan is portrayed. |
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Rendition (2007) #154 Remove Directed by Gavin Hood. With Reese Witherspoon, Jake Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard, Alan Arkin. A CIA analyst questions his assignment after witnessing an unorthodox interrogation at a secret detention facility outside the US. |
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Zombieland (2009) #312 Remove Directed by Ruben Fleischer. With Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, Woody Harrelson, Abigail Breslin. A shy student trying to reach his family in Ohio, a gun-toting tough guy trying to find the last Twinkie, and a pair of sisters trying to get to an amusement park join forces to travel across a zombie-filled America. |
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Winter's Bone (2010) #286 Remove Directed by Debra Granik. With Jennifer Lawrence, John Hawkes, Garret Dillahunt, Isaiah Stone. An unflinching Ozark Mountain girl hacks through dangerous social terrain as she hunts down her drug-dealing father while trying to keep her family intact. |
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Just Mercy (2019) #1320 Remove Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton. With Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx, Brie Larson, Charlie Pye Jr.. World-renowned civil rights defense attorney Bryan Stevenson works to free a wrongly condemned death row prisoner. |
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Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013) #245 Remove Directed by Adam McKay. With Will Ferrell, Christina Applegate, Paul Rudd, Steve Carell. With the '70s behind him, San Diego's top-rated newsman, Ron Burgundy, returns to take New York's first 24-hour news channel by storm. |
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The Kite Runner (2007) #81 Remove Directed by Marc Forster. With Khalid Abdalla, Ahmad Khan Mahmoodzada, Atossa Leoni, Shaun Toub. After spending years in California, Amir returns to his homeland in Afghanistan to help his old friend Hassan, whose son is in trouble. |
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The Tempest (2010) #349 Remove Directed by Julie Taymor. With Helen Mirren, Felicity Jones, Djimon Hounsou, Russell Brand. Shakespeare's epic play is translated from page to screen, with the gender of the main character, Prospero, changed from male to female. |
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All Is True (2018) #1219 Remove Directed by Kenneth Branagh. With Kenneth Branagh, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Nonso Anozie. A look at the final days in the life of renowned playwright William Shakespeare. |
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Arrival (2016) #1336 Remove Directed by Denis Villeneuve. With Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker, Michael Stuhlbarg. A linguist works with the military to communicate with alien lifeforms after twelve mysterious spacecrafts appear around the world. |
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The Theory of Everything (2014) #470 Remove Directed by James Marsh. With Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, Tom Prior, Sophie Perry. A look at the relationship between the famous physicist Stephen Hawking and his wife. |
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Carriers (2009) #312 Remove Directed by David Pastor, Àlex Pastor. With Chris Pine, Piper Perabo, Lou Taylor Pucci, Emily VanCamp. Four friends fleeing a viral pandemic soon learn they are more dangerous than any virus. |
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Star Trek (2009) #150 Remove Directed by Jeffrey Abrams. With Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Simon Pegg, Leonard Nimoy. The brash James T. Kirk tries to live up to his father's legacy with Commander Spock keeping him in check as a vengeful, time-traveling Romulan creates black holes to destroy the Federation one planet at a time. |
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To Walk Invisible (2016) #957 Remove Directed by Sally Wainwright. With James Norton, Charlie Murphy, Jonathan Pryce, Chloe Pirrie. A chronicle of the Brontë sisters' battle to overcome obstacles and publish their novels, which would become some of the greatest in the English language. |
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12 Rounds (2009) #142 Remove Directed by Renny Harlin. With John Cena, Ashley Scott, Aidan Gillen, Steve Harris. Detective Danny Fisher discovers his girlfriend has been kidnapped by a ex-con tied to Fisher's past, and he'll have to successfully complete 12 challenges in order to secure her safe release. |
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Rango (2011) #111 Remove Directed by Gore Verbinski. With Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher, Timothy Olyphant, Abigail Breslin. Rango is an ordinary chameleon who accidentally winds up in the town of Dirt, a lawless outpost in the Wild West in desperate need of a new sheriff. |
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Ophelia (2018) #1388 Remove Ophelia: Directed by Claire McCarthy. With Daisy Ridley, Mia Quiney, Calum O'Rourke, Nathaniel Parker. A reimagining of Hamlet, told from Ophelia's perspective |
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The Butler (2013) #255 Remove Directed by Lee Daniels. With Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, John Cusack, Jane Fonda. As Cecil Gaines serves eight presidents during his tenure as a butler at the White House, the civil rights movement, Vietnam, and other major events affect this man's life, family, and American society. |
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The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000) #311 Remove Directed by Robert Redford. With Will Smith, Matt Damon, Charlize Theron, Bruce McGill. A down-and-out golfer attempts to recover his game and his life with help from a mystical caddy. |
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The Harmony Game (2011) #1389 Remove The Harmony Game: Directed by Jennifer Lebeau. With Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel, Mort Lewis, Roy Halee. 40 years after the release of Bridge Over Troubled Water, Simon, Garfunkel and the principles involved with it reflect on the making of the album | |
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The BFG (2016) #1214 Remove Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Mark Rylance, Ruby Barnhill, Penelope Wilton, Jemaine Clement. An orphan little girl befriends a benevolent giant who takes her to Giant Country, where they attempt to stop the man-eating giants that are invading the human world. |
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Zombieland (2009) #312 Remove Directed by Ruben Fleischer. With Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, Woody Harrelson, Abigail Breslin. A shy student trying to reach his family in Ohio, a gun-toting tough guy trying to find the last Twinkie, and a pair of sisters trying to get to an amusement park join forces to travel across a zombie-filled America. |
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Just Mercy (2019) #1320 Remove Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton. With Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx, Brie Larson, Charlie Pye Jr.. World-renowned civil rights defense attorney Bryan Stevenson works to free a wrongly condemned death row prisoner. |
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Shine (1996) #151 Remove Directed by Scott Hicks. With Geoffrey Rush, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Justin Braine, Sonia Todd. Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim. |
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Wrong Side of Town (2010) #315 Remove Directed by David DeFalco. With Rob Van Dam, Dave Bautista, Lara Grice, Edrick Browne. In order to save his kidnapped daughter, an ex-Marine is forced to take on a gang of killers when an accident leaves the brother of a malicious criminal dead. |
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Without a Paddle (2004) #189 Remove Directed by Steven Brill. With Matthew Lillard, Seth Green, Dax Shepard, Matthew Price. After their friend dies, three men decide to fulfill their childhood dream by going on a camping expedition for the lost D. B. Cooper bounty, with calamitous results. |
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Les Misérables (2012) #460 Remove Directed by Tom Hooper. With Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried. In 19th-century France, Jean Valjean, who for decades has been hunted by the ruthless policeman Javert after breaking parole, agrees to care for a factory worker's daughter - the decision changes their lives forever. Sky |
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The Lost City (2005) #165 Remove Directed by Andy Garcia. With Andy Garcia, Inés Sastre, Bill Murray, Alfredo Armenteros. In Havana, Cuba in the late 1950s, a wealthy family, one of whose sons is a prominent night-club owner, is caught in the violent transition from the oppressive regime of Batista to the government of Fidel Castro. Castro's regime ultimately leads the night-club owner to flee to New York. |
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The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000) #311 Remove Directed by Robert Redford. With Will Smith, Matt Damon, Charlize Theron, Bruce McGill. A down-and-out golfer attempts to recover his game and his life with help from a mystical caddy. |
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Suffragette (2015) #552 Remove Directed by Sarah Gavron. With Carey Mulligan, Anne-Marie Duff, Helena Bonham Carter, Meryl Streep. The foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal State. |
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Choke (2008) #324 Remove Directed by Clark Gregg. With Sam Rockwell, Anjelica Huston, Kelly Macdonald, Kathryn Alexander. A sex-addicted con-man pays for his mother's hospital bills by playing on the sympathies of those who rescue him from choking to death. |
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Antigone at the Barbican (2015) #491 Remove Directed by Ivo van Hove. With Juliette Binoche, Obi Abili, Patrick O'Kane, Kirsty Bushell. Antigone is the story of the daughter of Oedipus |
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Battle of the Sexes (2017) #1136 Remove Directed by Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris. With Emma Stone, Steve Carell, Andrea Riseborough, Sarah Silverman. The true story of the 1973 tennis match between World number one Billie Jean King and ex-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs. |
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Paddington 2 (2017) #1288 Remove Directed by Paul King. With Ben Whishaw, Hugh Grant, Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins. Paddington (Ben Whishaw), now happily settled with the Brown family and a popular member of the local community, picks up a series of odd jobs to buy the perfect present for his Aunt Lucy's (Imelda Staunton's) 100th birthday, only for the gift to be stolen. |
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Hidden Figures (2016) #1064 Remove Directed by Theodore Melfi. With Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe, Kevin Costner. The story of a team of female African-American mathematicians who served a vital role in NASA during the early years of the U.S. space program. |
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The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962) #1094 Remove Directed by Tony Richardson. With Michael Redgrave, Tom Courtenay, Avis Bunnage, Alec McCowen. A juvenile offender at a tough reform school impresses its governor with his running ability and is encouraged to compete in an upcoming race, but faces ridicule from his peers. |
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The Monuments Men (2014) #574 Remove Directed by George Clooney. With George Clooney, Matt Damon, Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett. An unlikely World War II platoon is tasked to rescue art masterpieces from Nazi thieves and return them to their owners. |
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The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962) #1094 Remove Directed by Tony Richardson. With Michael Redgrave, Tom Courtenay, Avis Bunnage, Alec McCowen. A juvenile offender at a tough reform school impresses its governor with his running ability and is encouraged to compete in an upcoming race, but faces ridicule from his peers. |