Universal Studios, 2012; Directed by Tom Hooper; Starring: Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, Eddie Redmayne; PG-13: Suggestive and sexual material, violence and thematic elements. Summary: Les Misérables is a nineteenth-century French novel...

Universal Pictures, 1975; Directed by Steven Spielberg; Starring Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss, and Robert Shaw; PG. Summary: Jaws premiered in 1975 and was simultaneously responsible for two milestones: individuals across the country being afraid to enter the ocean,...

Canal+ Polska, 2013; Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski; Starring Agata Kulesza and Agata Trzebuchowska; PG-13. Summary: A young Polish woman named Anna is told to visit and meet her only living relative, an aunt, before Anna takes her vows to become a nun. Anna’s aunt is...

Warner Bros. Pictures, 2013; Directed by Alfonso Cuarón; Starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney; PG-13. Summary: Gravity is hailed as a film for its technical brilliance. Its opening shot is twelve and a half minutes long; when filming began, the technology did...

Miramax Films, 2008; Directed by John Patrick Shanley; Starring: Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Viola Davis; PG-13. Summary: Set in the Bronx in 1964, this story begins at a time of transition for America. Kennedy was shot in ‘63, Vatican II nears...

United Artists, 2005; Directed by Bennett Miller; Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, and Chris Cooper; R. Summary: Capote is the true story of the famous (and infamous) writer Truman Capote; more specifically, the film chronicles the genesis and...

IFC Films, 2014; Directed by Richard Linklater; Starring Ellar Coltrane, Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke, & Lorelei Linklater; R. Summary: The tagline of Boyhood is “12 years in the making,” a fitting phrase for a project that began filming in 2002 with a...

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1959; Directed by William Wyler; Starring Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Haya Harareet, Stephen Boyd, & Hugh Griffith; G. Summary: The production company MGM—think of the roaring lion—was going bankrupt and invested an unprecedented amount of...

Directed by Michel Hazanavicius (Warner Bros., 2011) Starring: Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, John Goodman, and James Cromwell; PG-13. Summary: The Artist is a black and white silent film about black and white silent films. It is a love story between two people but...