All The Right Movies

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The film's climactic commodities scene is so accurate that it's reportedly been used to teach finance, and even helped inspire a real piece of US trading law. Luke, Westy, and Matt continue the story as the tables turn. We dig into the crew behind the film — the screenplay, Elmer Bernstein's score, and the cinematography — before breaking down the finale, the reception, and the film's enduring sta...

Two heartless old men bet a single dollar on whether they can ruin one man's life and remake another's. Luke, Westy, and Matt begin the story of the sharpest comedy of its era. In Part 1 we cover the film's opening, director John Landis, the cast, and the second act — including Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd swapping lives, Jamie Lee Curtis's scene-stealing turn, and the Duke brothers' cruel little...

Cameron sold the rights for a single dollar on the condition he got to direct it, betting everything on himself. John, Westy, and Matt continue the story, building to the showdown in the factory. We dig into the crew behind the film — the Cameron and Gale Anne Hurd screenplay, Brad Fiedel's pulsing score, and the stop-motion and practical effects behind the endoskeleton — before breaking down the...

James Cameron dreamed up an unstoppable metal killer while sick with a fever in Rome, and built a franchise out of it. John, Westy, and Matt begin the story. In Part 1 we cover the film's opening, director James Cameron, the cast, and the second act — including Arnold Schwarzenegger cast against expectations as the villain, the relentless chase, and the scrappy, low-budget ingenuity on display. Th...

They may take our lives, but they'll never take the historical accuracy. Mainly because there wasn't a great deal of it to take. Mel Gibson's Braveheart (1995) plays gleefully fast and loose with the facts, then went and won five Oscars, Best Picture and Best Director among them. Gibson directs and stars as William Wallace, marshalling thousands of extras (a good number of them Irish A...

The famous jump was actually performed by McQueen's friend and stunt double Bud Ekins, though McQueen did much of the rest of the riding himself. Luke, Westy, and Matt continue the story, as the escape unfolds and unravels. We dig into the crew behind the film — the screenplay drawn from the true account, Elmer Bernstein's rousing march of a score, and the stunt work behind the chase — before brea...

That motorcycle jump is one of the most famous stunts in film history, and Steve McQueen wanted to do it himself. Luke, Westy, and Matt begin the story of the all-star prisoner-of-war epic. In Part 1 we cover the film's opening, director John Sturges, the cast, and the second act — including the ensemble of escapees, the meticulous tunnel-digging operation, and McQueen's Cooler King straining agai...

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The hardest part to dramatise was three men doing maths in a freezing metal box, and somehow it's unbearably tense. John, Westy, and Matt continue the story, picking up at the white-knuckle re-entry. We dig into the crew behind the film — the screenplay, James Horner's soaring score, and the effects and production design that recreated the mission — before breaking down the finale, the awards reco...

Rather than fake weightlessness, Ron Howard flew his cast and crew on a plane that free-falls toward the earth, over and over, to shoot it for real. John, Westy, and Matt begin the story. In Part 1 we cover the film's opening, director Ron Howard, the cast, and the second act — including Tom Hanks leading the crew, the obsessive period detail, and how Howard builds tension from an outcome much of...

Shot for a tiny sum and sold via one of the first great internet marketing campaigns, it became one of the most profitable films ever made. Luke, Westy, and Matt continue the story, down to that infamous final shot. We dig into the crew behind the film — the loose script and the directors' guerrilla methods, the sparse sound design, and the raw handheld footage — before breaking down the ending, t...

The marketing was so convincing that some audiences genuinely believed the footage was real and the actors were dead. Luke, Westy, and Matt begin the story of the found-footage phenomenon. In Part 1 we cover the film's opening, directors Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez, the cast, and the second act — including the largely improvised dialogue, the actors left to fend for themselves in the woods,...

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The film was so associated with real-life violence on release that the studio pulled its advertising, which only fuelled its legend. Luke, Westy, and Matt continue the story as the Warriors fight their way back to Coney Island. We dig into the crew behind the film — the screenplay, the propulsive score, and the neon-soaked cinematography of nighttime New York — before breaking down the finale, the...

Warriors, come out to play. Luke, Westy, and Matt begin the story of the stylised gang odyssey that turned a long walk across New York into a cult classic. In Part 1 we cover the film's opening, director Walter Hill, the cast, and the second act — including the citywide truce that goes wrong, the Warriors framed for murder, and the gauntlet of rival gangs between them and home. There's a long, dan...

A broken shark turned out to be the best thing that could have happened, teaching a young director that what you don't see is scarier. John, Westy, Matt, and Luke continue the story, boarding the Orca for the hunt. We dig into the crew behind the film — the screenplay adapted from Peter Benchley, John Williams's two-note masterpiece of a score, and the punishing at-sea production — before breaking...

The shark barely worked, the shoot ran wildly over, and the chaos accidentally made the film better. John, Westy, Matt, and Luke begin the story of the first summer blockbuster. In Part 1 we cover the film's opening, director Steven Spielberg, the cast, and the second act — including that opening night swim, the malfunctioning mechanical shark forcing Spielberg to suggest rather than show, and the...

Who is Keyser Söze? Audiences spent 1995 arguing about it, and one famous closing shot has been keeping people guessing ever since. We won't spoil it here. The film is Bryan Singer's twisting neo-noir The Usual Suspects (1995), built on Christopher McQuarrie's Oscar-winning screenplay and a loaded ensemble: Gabriel Byrne, Benicio del Toro, Chazz Palminteri, Pete Postlethwaite and an Os...

Aronofsky shot it on a tiny budget with handheld cameras to give it a fly-on-the-wall rawness, a world away from his more stylised work. Luke, Westy, and Matt continue the story, building to that unforgettable final image. We dig into the crew behind the film — the screenplay, Clint Mansell's score and the Springsteen title track, and the gritty cinematography — before breaking down the finale, th...

It revived Mickey Rourke's career so completely that the line between actor and role all but vanished. Luke, Westy, and Matt begin the story of Darren Aronofsky's raw, aching character study. In Part 1 we cover the film's opening, director Darren Aronofsky, the cast, and the second act — including Rourke's battered Randy "The Ram", the stripped-back documentary feel, and the toll the ring takes on...

The Winklevoss twins were played by one actor and a body double, seamlessly stitched together by effects so good you'd never notice. John, Westy, and Matt continue the story as the partnerships fracture. We dig into the crew behind the film — Sorkin's Oscar-winning screenplay, the Reznor and Ross score that also won, and Fincher's precise cinematography — before breaking down the finale, the award...

A film about people sitting at computers shouldn't be this gripping. David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin made sure it was. John, Westy, and Matt begin the story. In Part 1 we cover the film's opening, director David Fincher, the cast, and the second act — including Jesse Eisenberg's Mark Zuckerberg, Sorkin's machine-gun dialogue, and the dorm-room origins of a company that ate the world. The lawsuits a...

The film was such a sleeper hit that word of mouth kept it at number one for weeks, almost unheard of for a horror drama. Luke, Westy, and Matt continue the story, up to the ending that rewires the whole film. We dig into the crew behind the film — Shyamalan's screenplay, James Newton Howard's score, and the cinematography that hides its secrets in plain sight — before breaking down the twist, the...

It has one of the most famous twist endings in cinema, and we're going to be very careful here. Luke, Westy, and Matt begin the story of M. Night Shyamalan's breakthrough. In Part 1 we cover the film's opening, director M. Night Shyamalan, the cast, and the second act — including young Haley Joel Osment's remarkable performance, Bruce Willis's grieving child psychologist, and the quiet, creeping d...