It follows a found family living in poverty who work odd jobs and shoplift to make ends meet. One of the standout movies of the last five years, Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Shoplifters is a moving examination of what makes a family, and the lengths we have to go to survive. New on Max ShopliftersĬast: Lily Franky, Sakura Ando, Mayu Matsuoka Pride & Prejudice is streaming on Netflix. For anyone who loved Greta Gerwig’s Little Women, with its sunny cinematography and sprawling cast of very specific and distinctive young women, this is the film to try next. Keira Knightley stars as put-upon heroine Elizabeth Bennet, with Matthew Macfadyen as the rich, huffy cad who resents his attraction to her Donald Sutherland, Brenda Blethyn, Rosamund Pike, Jena Malone, Carey Mulligan, and Talulah Riley fill out her fractious family. But people who never considered themselves Austen fans should just settle in and watch Joe Wright’s 2005 luminous adaptation, which bathes the whole story in glowing light and makes the longing and the spurning feel much more immediate, modern, and relatable than some of the more staid adaptations do. Longtime Jane Austen fans can vigorously debate which screen adaptation of Pride & Prejudice is the best one, or whether anyone could live up to Colin Firth’s glowering as Mr. Pride & PrejudiceĬast: Keira Knightley, Matthew Macfadyen, Brenda Blethyn Don’t be intimidated by the film’s three-hour run time - the experience is guaranteed to be one you’ll never forget. The pair meet and fall madly in love with one another while traveling aboard the Titanic’s tragic maiden voyage.Ĭameron’s film is as astonishing today as when it first premiered, a rapturously beautiful and heart-wrenching tale of romance, hubris, class, and survival. Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio star as Rose Dewitt Bukater, the wealthy fiancée of an arrogant steel baron, and Jack Dawson, and an itinerant orphan. For these reasons, now is as perfect a time as any to watch James Cameron’s epic dramatization of the infamous sinking of the Titanic. The recent tragedy (or unforced error) of the Titan submersible implosion and the upsurge in orca whales ramming boats on the Atlantic coast of Spain and Portugal have instilled a newfound fear, fascination, and respect for the ocean across the internet. And if it wasn’t for this Garland-penned gem, shows like The Walking Dead probably wouldn’t exist.Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane Shot with guerilla-style DV cameras, 28 Days Later looks and feels like a raw and unfiltered eyewitness experience that doesn’t relent in the slightest. With a script by Ex Machina and Annihilation helmer Alex Garland, Boyle’s film stars Cillian Murphy as Jim, a bicycle messenger who wakes up from a coma, in a totally abandoned and dilapidated London.īut not long after his revival, Jim’s initial perambulation of this strange new world is violently interrupted by the arrival of blood-hungry humans infected with a virus called “Rage.” Now forced to fight for his life, alongside a small band of fellow survivors, there’s danger around every corner, and amongst the non-infected, few can be trusted.

But before the two aforementioned brain-eating flicks, there was director Danny Boyle’s 2002 film 28 Days Later. Zombies aren’t exactly known for their tremendous speed, although recent genre entries like Train to Busan and World War Z would have you think differently about the on-foot capabilities of the undead. Filled with unforgettable scares from start to finish, It is a brilliant example of how grand things can get when filmmakers develop and produce for the big screen versus television. Known as Pennywise (Bill Skarsgård), the infamous monster preys on unsuspecting children, and after murdering the younger brother of de facto leader Bill (Jaeden Lieberher), a thirst for vengeance carries the pre-teens deep into the Derry sewers to confront the harrowing beast.

Swapping the small-town ‘50s for a suburban ‘80s backdrop, It follows a group of misfit kids known as “the Losers Club.” But far beyond a safe place for the bullied and forgotten to thrive, each of the Losers is plagued by disturbing visions of a cannibalistic clown. And while we have to respect Tommy Lee Wallace’s creepy ‘90s miniseries starring Tim Curry as Pennywise the Clown, the source text received a much bigger-budget homage in the form of director Andy Muschietti’s cinematic two-part chronicling of the classic King story. The world had long been waiting for Stephen King’s iconic dictionary-sized novel It to receive a proper cinematic interpretation.

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