Beating Hearts: Gilles (“Sink Or Swim”) Lellouche’s Sentimental (Musical) Melodrama (Cannes Film Fest 2024)

Adele Exarchopoulos and Francois Civil play teenage lovers reunited in adulthood in Gilles Lellouche’s sentimental (musical) melodrama.

Slap Shot (1977): George Roy Hill’s Sports Comedy, Starring Paul Newman, Michael Ontkean

It depicts a minor league ice hockey team that resorts to a violent play in order to gain popularity in a factory town that’s in decline.

Movie Genres: Noir–Defining Actors–Bad Boys and Killers, Femme Fatales–Stanwyck, Garfield, Rita Hayworth, Ava Gardner

Movie Genres: Noir–Defining Actors–Bad Boys and Killers, Femme Fatales–Stanwyck, Garfield, Rita Hayworth, Ava Gardner

July 4: Patriotic Movies–Chronologically, from 1939 to Present

Whether it’s Tom Cruise playing a cocky Navy pilot, Will Smith taking on aliens or Jessica Chastain helping bring down Osama bin Laden, Hollywood has offered plenty of patriotic films to watch over the Fourth of July Weekend.

Raiders of The Lost Ark (1981): Heist Scene–Great Movie Beginnings

Raiders  •  The Boulder Chase The opening might be the best scene of the Indiana Jones franchise, a seductive invitation to enter the strange, unfamiliar world of archaeological artifacts. A thrilling heist scene begins the movie, which became a franchise, directed by Oscar winners Spielberg (“Jaws”) and producr George Lucas (“Star Wars”). The adventure is […]