Five Star Film Club
Welcome to the Five Star Film Club, the movie-watching paradise where we only watch movies that deserve Five Stars! It’s simple, sign up for the group chat at 410-236-0646. Every month, the polls go out where we vote on the movie and the day. Whatever gets the most votes wins! Want to contribute to the Five Star options? Submit your movie below and we’ll add it into the rotation.
A classic that lives up to its stature! You may think you know the movie, but if you’ve never seen it, you’ll be surprised by just how entertaining, tense, fun, and compelling it can be! Is Norman Bates sexy? You might be surprised how you feel coming out of this!
Kind of a proto-Princess Bride in terms of tone and blending parody and legitimacy in a fantasy medieval setting.
Danny Kaye plays a carnival performer who hangs out with The Black Fox (a parody of Robin Hood) protecting the true royal heir. When the baby is threatened, he finds himself pretending to be both a court jester AND assassin. Absolutely jam packed with laughs and you’ll be astonished how many plot balls are juggled in the air at once.
Just remember: “The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle”
An absolute cult classic fave, Highlander is about a man from the Scottish highlands who discovers he’s actually part of a race of immortals tasked with decapitating each other until only one remains. We flash between his Scottish origins and the current day New York action (full of GREAT New York character actors). French actors playing Scottish, Sean Connery playing a Spanish Egyptian who lived in Japan, soundtrack by Queen, a villain played by Mr. Krabs, what else do you need?!
Michelle Yeoh plays a Hong Kong policewoman who is tracking down a sexy couple of terrorists. After being caught on an airplane, she, her partner, and a handsome Japanese detective team up to punch and kick their way through the mystery.
Note: The first time I saw this I spontaneously yelled “Chainsaw fight!” at the television.
“Pain don’t hurt.” So goes the wisdom of philosophy major/bouncer Dalton played by Patrick Swayze. Maybe one of the most quotable movies of the ‘80s, Road House is a Western pastiche set in the present day, where a sexy bouncer has to protect his neighborhood from a brutal rich guy who brags about bringing Sears to the town. You will not believe how fun this movie is.