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Five Movies About Mental Illness

All around me are familiar faces Worn out places, worn out faces Bright and early for their daily races Going nowhere, going nowhere

Five Movies About Bank Robbers

Stick 'em up!

Five Movies About High School Sports

Millions of kids that participate in high school sports each year, but there are less than 5,000 players on the rosters of all the NFL, NBA, NHL and MLB teams combined.

Five Movies About Class Warfare

Princes and paupers and princesses and pauperesses...

Five Movies About Investigative Journalism

The truth? Could we handle the truth?

Five Movies About Getting into College

Being a college student is easy. Getting in is the hard part.

Five Movies About Con Men

When you're watching a movie about a con, there's always a nervousness and unease in the back of your mind that maybe you're getting conned too.

Five Movies About the Moon

The moon is lots of things. A target of conquest, something scary, and even a symbol of isolation.

Five Movies About Athletes in Prison

Like war, prison is the setting for a LOT of movies.

Five Movies About Fake Wars

There's perhaps no real life subject so ready-made for the screen as war.

Five Movies About Hockey

It's kinda like soccer. But with ice skates. And it's actually fun to watch.

Five Movies About Submarines

There are movies that sound like they're about submarines, but then you watch them and find out they're not.

Five Movies About Race Car Drivers

As one of the only three real sports - the other two being bull fighting and mountaineering of course, at least according to Ernest Hemingway (or Ken Purdy or Barnaby Conrad, depending on whom you believe) - motor sports attracts some dynamic and colorful characters.

Five Movies About the Real World and the Cartoon World Mixed Together

I assume that just about everyone who grew up in the 1980's is familiar with the video for the A-ha song "Take on Me."

Five Movies About Groups of People Trapped Together

A lot of movies owe a conceptual debt to Jean-Paul Sartre's play No Exit, and its most famous line "Hell is other people." Nothing can get under your skin like someone who makes it impossible for you to ignore your own flaws and shortcomings.

Five Movies About the Aftermath of War

War is hell, and there are plenty of movies showing that to us. Platoon, Paths of Glory, Saving Private Ryan, The Hurt Locker, The Bridge Over the River Kwai, The Longest Day, Apocalypse Now are all great movies. The drama inherent in war makes it a prime subject for movies, of course, and the scope of battle lends itself particularly well to the visual medium. But what happens when the war is over, and the soldiers return home? What about movies that deal with the “after”?

Five Movies About How Prostitution Isn’t Like Pretty Woman

There are a few movies out there that are widely liked, but which I simply can't stand. Pretty Woman is one of those movies. While part of my dislike for Pretty Woman is simply a consequence of me generally not being a fan of fairy tales, there's something else about it that always bothered me.

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About This Website

I am neither a film critic nor a film reviewer – I’m just a fan of movies. But I’m a big fan.

Once you’ve seen enough of them, your mind starts making links and connections. You see similarities between different types of movies, or movies from different eras. You note that certain themes seem to appear over and over, sometimes with slight differences, and other times with significant ones. I like exploring these similarities across different movies, and I’m curious to learn what other people think.

These aren’t meant to be the “best” five, by any means. In fact, I think sometimes it’s worth watching a really bad movie or two, just to keep the context of the ratings spectrum in mind.

Five Movies About Running