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.
Mamma Mia what a picture! This charming piece of fluff is enjoyable largely because you get to enjoy a bunch of A-List celebs drunk off their ass karaokying ABBA songs in beautiful Greek vistas. Has the director ever made a film before? No! Can Pierce Brosnan sing a lick? No! Does that make this any less joyful and effortlessly watchable? Not at all!
Ben Whishaw plays a man with a superior sense of smell born in the very smelly 18th Century France. While working for perfumer Dustin Hoffman, he becomes obsessed (murderously so) with the quest for the perfect scent. Alan Rickman’s there too!
Paul Giamatti is a cantankerous professor at a boy’s academy who is tasked with staying over holiday break with the few students who are stuck on campus. A warm bond soon forms between him, a damaged student whose parents have left him at the school and the school cook whose son just died in Vietnam.
Some true facts about xXx: The Return of Xander Cage.
-Vin Diesel recruits a DJ to be part of his team to distract bad guys by DJing really well.
-Vin flushes a man with robot fists down a toilet.
-Vin gets a horny millennial sidekick.
-The MacGuffin is a device that allows you to crush people by making satellites fall out of the sky.
-There’s a scene where everybody rides aquatic motorcycles underwater.
William H. Macy has a foolproof plan to get out of debt. Book a fake kidnapping of his wife and have his father-in-law pay the ransom. One problem. The fools involved are maybe bigger than you’d think. Francis MacDormand in an Oscar-winning role as the Midwestern Nice pregnant cop who quickly puts the pieces together to solve the case.