Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
This is to me the definitive Les Miserables. Norm Lewis an incomparable Javert. The legendary Lea Salonga as Fantine. Twink Nick Jonas as Marius. Matt Lewis and Jenny Galloway as unmatched Thenardiers. When mother's crush Alfie Boe sings "Bring Him Home" it will bring a tear to your eye. Scrub the 2012 film from your memory.
the kind of pre-war american socialist ethic that was allowed on screen before the mccarthy era where if you suggested that society should take care of people you were labeled an enemy of the state
spoiler~ in my opinion, people who walk away from this movie thinking that it glorifies or heroizes the building of the atomic bomb misunderstand the film. it's about a Jewish man who is the greatest physicist in the country who believes that he can save his people by doing physics—and then realizes to his horror that what he was actually doing the whole time was enabling the literal end of life on planet earth; and how complicated that might be…