You survived the week. The least you deserve is a good film on the other side of it.
American car designer Carroll Shelby and the British-born driver Ken Miles work together to battle corporate interference, the laws of physics, and their own personal demons to build a revolutionary race car for Ford Motor Company and take on the dominating race cars of Enzo Ferrari at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in France in 1966.
This is end-of-week cinema. You don't have to bring much. The film meets you where you are.
When two brothers are forced to fight in the Korean War, the elder decides to take the riskiest missions if it will help shield the younger from battle.
After five hard days, this gives back more than it asks. Good trade.
In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a defeated army, stumble upon a mysterious man who guides them to a fortress hidden in the mountains.
After five hard days, this gives back more than it asks. Good trade.
An assassin is shot by her ruthless employer, Bill, and other members of their assassination circle – but she lives to plot her vengeance.
This is end-of-week cinema. You don't have to bring much. The film meets you where you are.
A young boy and a girl with a magic crystal must race against pirates and foreign agents in a search for a legendary floating castle.
This is end-of-week cinema. You don't have to bring much. The film meets you where you are.
After a long week, a film should feel like something you chose rather than endured. These do that.
All the tension is on screen. None required from you.
Ripley, the sole survivor of the Nostromo's deadly encounter with the monstrous Alien, returns to Earth after drifting through space in hypersleep for 57 years. Although her story is initially met with skepticism, she agrees to accompany a team of Colonial Marines back to LV-426.
This is end-of-week cinema. You don't have to bring much. The film meets you where you are.
The story of Tim Ballard, a former US government agent, who quits his job in order to devote his life to rescuing children from global sex traffickers.
After five hard days, this gives back more than it asks. Good trade.
The story of a teenage boy called Yu, who falls for Yoko, a girl he runs into while working as an upskirt photographer in an offshoot of the porn industry. His attempts to woo her are complicated by a spot of cross-dressing – which convinces Yoko that she is lesbian – dalliances with kung-fu and crime, and a constant struggle with Catholic guilt.
After five hard days, this gives back more than it asks. Good trade.
In this companion piece and sequel to "Yojimbo," jaded samurai Sanjuro helps an idealistic group of young warriors weed out their clan's evil influences, and in the process turns their image of a proper samurai on its ear.
After five hard days, this gives back more than it asks. Good trade.
Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's soldiers. This leads the village to revolt and, eventually, the entire country to rise up against English rule.
This is end-of-week cinema. You don't have to bring much. The film meets you where you are.
These films work because they match where you actually are, not where you think you should be.