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 banger Alfred Hitchcock single location thriller. Rope is about two young men eager to prove they committed the perfect murder by hosting a dinner party for the family of the young man they just murdered and is hidden in a chest they’re hosting the buffet on. Hitch used long takes and some hidden cuts to create the illusion of unbroken scenes that last the length of each film reel.
Gamera is a 60-ft fire-breathing space-faring turtle who is a friend to all children. In this late sequel in the franchise he helps out two kids who get abducted by aliens who want to eat their brains to get the knowledge they need to live on Earth. Can Gamera defeat a knife-headed monster who shoots throwing stars out of his sides?
A 1920s stuntman is recovering from a severe fall in a hospital and begins telling a fantastical tale to a seven-year-old girl in the hopes that she will steal more pain meds for him. But what starts as a ruse, becomes a relationship as the story becomes more involved and the two start to bond.
Visually sumptuous and shot on location in 24 countries on all 7 continents. This was an early ‘00s cult film that’s now getting its due.
Considered by playwright David Mamet to be a “perfect screenplay” and by Patrick Stewart to be “the best Star Trek movie,” Galaxy Quest is a steel-drum tight script about a bunch of actors from a Star Trek-esque TV series being confused for actual space heroes by an alien race that has patterned its whole society after their “historical records.” Sam Rockwell, Alan Rickman, Tony Shaloub all take turns stealing the show.
After a comet wipes out most of life on Earth, two Valley Girls find themselves fighting against cannibal zombies and a sinister group of scientists. A movie so ‘80s that it feels like an ‘80s pastiche. The mall sequences are to die for.