Stranger Things, Season 1 (2016)

In 1983 Indiana, a young boy vanishes into thin air, as friends, family and local police search for answers, they are drawn into an extraordinary mystery involving top-secret government experiments, terrifying supernatural forces and one very strange little girl.

Lovingly recreated homage to 80s Spielberg productions convinces with excellent period details, a great cast of characters and introducing a very unique and mesmerizing persona with the girl Eleven; the mystery itself, however, is not really that exciting.

Dillinger (1973)

The Killing (1956)

Crooks plan and execute a daring race-track robbery.

Tough noir-style heist drama, meticulously directed with an unusual time structure and a first-rate cast.

Halliwell**: "Incisive, entertaining, downbeat caper movie clearly influenced by The Asphalt Jungle and Rififi."

Maltin***1/2: "The film that really put Kubrick on the map - a case study of a racetrack heist, with a colorful cast of characters...Major flaw: the Dragnet-style narration."

Moon Zero Two (1969)

Black Panther (2018)

T'Challa, heir to the hidden but advanced kingdom of Wakanda, must step forward to lead his people into a new future and must confront a challenger from his country's past.

Although it grandly delivers all the goods of a superhero comic adaptation, the makers even more successfuly create an uplifting African myth and contrast it it with the realities of our current world.

Badlands (1973)

On the set: Martin Sheen and Terrence Malick

In the Heart of the Sea (2015)

A recounting of a New England whaling ship's sinking by a giant whale in 1820, an experience that later inspired the great novel Moby-Dick.

Old-fashioned seafaring adventure delivers all the goods of such a tale, but not too much more.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)

Busanhaeng (2016)

While a zombie virus breaks out in South Korea, passengers struggle to survive on the train from Seoul to Busan.

Unusual zombie apocalypse thriller successfully combines suspense and social commentary.  

Spartacus (1960)

On the set: Stanley Kubrick and Kirk Douglas