To rent or not to rent, that’s what this list is about.
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, 1948 yes, especially if you had dot com stock options
- The Boys from Brazil, 1978 yes, there’s no Nazis like creepy 70’s Nazis
- The Creeping Flesh, 1973 yes, just to see the film you stayed up so late for in 1976
- Hellboy, 2004 yes, Hollywood, but well done
- Robot Monster, 1953 only if you’d think that a robot in a gorilla suit sounds like fun
- Dracula: The Satanic Rites, 1978 skip, a Hammer film proving that Christopher Lee shouldn’t talk
- Ghost in the Shell, 1995 yes, superb anime
- Bad Boys II, 2003 dunno, can’t remember it
- The Awful Truth, 1937 yes, yes—classic screwball comedy with Cary Grant
- Quatermass and the Pit, 1968 yes, another Hammer film, good Big Idea and they almost pull it off
- Lara Croft: Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, 2003 skip, it’s too much and not enough
- The Office: Series 1, 2001, BBC TV series, excruciating to sit through but hilarious
- Signs, 2002 why not, it could have been worse
- The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara, 2003 yes, well done documentaries are so rare
- Underworld, 2003 oh no, worst film I’ve seen in years
- Mulholland Drive, 2001 heh, heh—only if you like David Lynch—but if you do, you’ve already seen it
- Old School, 2003 why not, a guilty pleasure
- Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip, 1982 yes, especially if you missed his 70’s stand up the first time around
- A Night at the Opera, 1935, should be required viewing
- Dracula Vs. Frankenstein, 1971 no, a bad film, but not bad enough to be good
