the Thinking Chick’s Guide to Movies of All Genres

Fall 2008: Back to Old School

While talking with Mr. Shukti one night, I thought about how our viewing of vintage movies seems to overlap. We’ve seen different things, each one with a list of classics we missed that surprised the other, but we both enjoy vintage movies.

With fall coming I thought I’d start adding more classic movies to my reviews. That’s where you come in. Any old classics I need to review? Something you think I need to see? Email me at shukti@thinkingchick.com and I’ll screen and review it.

— Shukti, Divine Movie Being

2

• 28 Weeks Later (2007)

3

• 30 Days of Night (2007)
• 300 (2006)

A

• Accepted (2006)
• Alien (1979)
• Alien: Resurrection (1997)
• Aliens (1986)
• All About Eve (1950)
• All the King’s Men (1949)
• An American Carol (2008)
• American Gangster (2007)
• The Apartment (1960)
• Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
• Auntie Mame (1958)

B

• Beauty and the Beast (Belle et la bête, La) (1946)
• Bell Book and Candle (1958)
• Ben-Hur (1959)
• The Birds (1963)
• Black Sheep (2006)
• Blow (2001)
• Born Yesterday (1950)
• Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)
• The Brave One (2007)
• Breach (2007)
• Burn After Reading (2008)

C

• Caché (2005)
• Casino (1995)
• The Caine Mutiny (1954)
• Candyman (1992)
• Captains Courageous (1937)
• Casino Royale (2006)
• Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (1958)
• Changeling (2008)
• A Christmas Story (1983)
• Cloverfield (2008)
• Cold Turkey (1971)
• Crazy Eights (2006)
• The Creeping Unknown (The Quatermass Xperiment) (1955)
• The Crow (1994)

D

• The Dark Knight (2008)
• The Day After (1983)
• Dead Alive (aka Braindead) (1992)
• Dead Man Walking (1995)
• Death Becomes Her (1992)
• The Deaths of Ian Stone (2007)
• The Departed (2006)
• The Descent (2005)
• The Devil’s Rain (1975)
• The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
• Diabolique (Les Diaboliques) (1955)
• The Dirty Dozen (1967)
• Dr. Strangelove (1964)
• Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999)

E

• Elf (2003)
• Enchanted (2007)
• Excalibur (1983)
• Executive Decision (1996)
• The Exorcist (1973)

F

• Falling Down (1993)
• The Family Stone (2005)
• Fargo (1996)
• Fast Food Nation (2006)
• Fatal Attraction (1987)
• Finding Nemo (2003)
• Five Easy Pieces (1970)
• Flight of the Living Dead: Outbreak on a Plane (2007)
• Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)
• Forrest Gump (1994)
• From Here to Eternity (1953)
• Full Metal Jacket (1987)

G

• Ghost Rider (2007)
• The Godfather (1972)
• Goodfellas (1990)
• Gravedancers (2005)
• The Great Escape (1963)
• The Green Mile (1999)
• Grindhouse (2007)

H

• The Hamiltons (2006)
• The Hand That Rocks The Cradle (1992)
• The Happening (2008)
• Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle (2004)
• Harvey (1950)
• Heavy Metal (1981)
• Hollywoodland (2006)
• Horton Hears a Who! (2008)
• Hot Fuzz (2007)
• The House Bunny (2008)

I

• Idiocracy (2006)
• I Heart Huckabees (2004)
• The Incredible Hulk (2008)
• The Incredibles (2004)
• Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
• Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
• Inland Empire (2006)
• I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry (2007)
• In the Heat of the Night (1967)
• Iron Man (2008)
• Irresistible (2006)
• It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)

J

• Jacob’s Ladder (1990)
• John Q (2002)
• Judgement at Nuremberg (1961)

K

• The Killing (1956)
• Kinky Boots (2005)
• Klute (1971)
• Ku Fung Panda (2008)

L

• La Dolce Vita (1960)
• Lady In The Water (2006)
• Lake Dead (2007)
• Last King of Scotland (2006)
• Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
• Legally Blonde (2001)
• Let Him Have It (1991)
• Life Is Beautiful (1997)
• Liquid Sky (1982)
• Little Voice (1998)
• Live Free or Die Hard (2007)

M

• The Magdalene Sisters (2002)
• Magnificent Obsession (1954)
• The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)
• Mephisto Waltz (1971)
• Midnight Express (1978)
• A Midsummer’s Night Dream (1935)
• The Mist (2007)
• Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939)
• Mommie Dearest (1981)
• Monkey Business (1952)
• Mulberry Street (2006)

N

• The Nanny Diaries (2007)
• Napoleon Dynamite (2004)
• National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989)
• Night at the Museum (2006)
• Night of the Living Dead (1968)
• Night Watch (2004)

O

• El Orfanato (The Orphanage) (2007)

P

• The Painted Veil (2006)
• Pandora’s Box (1929)
• Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)
• Penny Dreadful (2006)
• Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (2007)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006)
• Plane Dead (2007)
• Play Misty For Me (1971)
• Poltergeist (1982)
• The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
• A Prairie Home Companion (2006)
• The Pride of the Yankees
• The Producers (1968)
• Psycho (1960)
• The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)

Q

• Quantum of Solace (2008)
• The Queen (2006)

R

• Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
• Raising Arizona (1987)
• Ratatouille (2007)
• Rear Window (1954)
• Reincarnation (Rinne) (2005)
• Rescue Dawn (2006)
• Riding in Cars with Boys (2001)
• The Right Stuff (1983)
• The Ring (2002)
• RoboCop (1987)
• RoboCop 2 (1990)
• Rosemary’s Baby (1968)

S

• Scarface (1932)
• School For Scoundrels (2006)
• Se7en (1995)
• Shallow Grave (1994)
• The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
• The Shining (1980)
• Sicko (2007)
• Silent Hill (2006)
• A Simple Plan (1998)
• The Simpsons Movie (2007)
• Slither (2006)
• Snakes On A Plane (2006)
• Spider (2002)
• Spider-Man (2007)
• The Stand (1994)
• Star Wars (1977)
• The Stepford Wives (2004)
• Storm of the Century (1999)
• The Strangers (2008)
• Summer of Sam (1999)
• Sunset Blvd. (1950)
• Superbad (2007)

T

• Tenacious D in ‘The Pick of Destiny’ (2006)
• There Will Be Blood (2007)
• The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
• They Live (1988)
• They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (1969)
• Thinner (1996)
• The Third Man (1949)
• Tooth & Nail (2007)
• Traffic (2000)
• Tropic Thunder (2008)

U

• Unearthed (2007)
• Unrest (2006)

V

• Vacancy (2007)
• Versus (2000)
• Videodrome (1983)

W

• Waitress (2007)
• The Wasp Woman (1959)
• White Heat (1949)
• Wicked Little Things (2006)
• The Wicker Man (1973)
• Wild Hogs (2007)
• Wolf Creek (2005)
• Wrong Turn (2003)

Y

• You Don’t Mess with the Zohan (2008)
• You, Me and Dupree (2006)
• Yours, Mine and Ours (1968)

Z

• Zodiac (2007)