Room 237 (2013) - Stanley Kubrick’s incredible and obsessive eye to detail has been a treasure of fans of movies for decades, but since the advent of the internet, fans have uncovered more and more insane aspects of his movies. The best example might be with his iconic horror film The Shining, which to this day remains my favorite horror film, where the entire floor plan of the hotel is an impossible design. Room 237 is a documentary that unspools some of the craziest and most entertaining theories behind Kubrick’s masterpiece. Plenty of them might be easy to dismiss, but as the doc continues, you realize there’s too much there for it all to be a coincidence. Some of them have to be real. It’s a trip, and enjoyable for just about everyone.





Sunset Boulevard (1950) - Billy Wilder is responsible for a number of the best movies of all time, from noir masterpieces like Double Indemnity to raunchy (but smart) sex comedies like The Apartment. With Sunset Boulevard, Wilder made one of the best movies about movies of all time. The journey of discovering Boulevard is haunting and malicious, with the plot summary of “Aging silent-film star Norma Desmond ensnares a young screenwriter in this poison-pen valentine to Hollywood.” It’s a ghoulish film on the nature of art, identity, and moral compromise, and it’s one of the greats.



