Rules of the game: provide a summary and review of films in 6 words or less!
Girl on a Train: Hazy Manipulative melodrama. Watch the corkscrew!
Jean de Florette/Manon des Sources: Malice Springs; rainless regrets; French tragedy
My Week With Marilyn: Ingenue meets superstar; Olivier growls
Cabin in the Woods: Right load of old codswallop
Citizen Kane: Mogul dies, Rosebud lives, spooky castle
Amadeus: Salieri shafts Mozart; God shafts Salieri
The Third Man: Harry Lime zithers around Vienna. Cuckoo!
Casablanca: Nazi escape as time goes by
Submarine: Welsh Adrian Mole meets Gregory’s Girl
Sunset Boulevard: Swanson swansong, Holden swimming, DeMille amused
Monty Python’s Life of Brian: Naughty boy! Romans 1 Christians 0.
Arsenic & Old Lace: Batty ladies outkill gangster, Mortimer marries
It’s a Wonderful Life: Bailey saved, angel earns wings. Hallelujah!
Inception: Deep dreaming DiCaprio frowns; audience gapes
Lincoln: Heroic monument, slavery abolished very slowly
Django Unchained: Tarantino’s bloody hero rides into sunset
Avatar: Pocahontas with Smurfs.