Stories by @siddarthsid

The Age of Innocence (2013)

The film recounts the courtship and marriage of Newland Archer, a wealthy New York society attorney, to May Welland ; Archer then encounters and legally represents Countess Olenska, prior to unexpected romantic entanglements.

The Last Temptation of Christ (2008)

The film depicts the life of Jesus Christ and his struggle with various forms of temptation including fear, doubt, depression, reluctance and lust.

A Million Ways to Die in the West (1994)

The film follows a cowardly frontiersman who gains courage with the help of a female gunfighter and must use his newfound skills in a confrontation with her villainous outlaw husband.

Kick-Ass (1988)

It tells the story of an ordinary teenager, Dave Lizewski, who sets out to become a real-life superhero, calling himself "Kick-Ass". Dave gets caught up in a bigger fight when he meets Big Daddy, a former cop who, in his quest to bring down the crime boss Frank D'Amico and his son Red Mist, has trained his eleven-year-old daughter to be the ruthless vigilante Hit-Girl.

Misery (2020)

The movie is about an obsessive fan who holds an author captive and forces him to write a story.

Murder on the Orient Express (2014)

The film features the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, who is asked to investigate the murder of an American business tycoon aboard the Orient Express train.

Stripes (2011)

Two friends who are dissatisfied with their jobs decide to join the army for a bit of fun.

The Shawshank Redemption (2014)

It tells the story of banker Andy Dufresne, who is sentenced to life in Shawshank State Penitentiary for the murders of his wife and her lover, despite his claims of innocence. Over the following two decades, he befriends a fellow prisoner, contraband smuggler Ellis "Red" Redding and becomes instrumental in a money-laundering operation led by the prison warden Samuel Norton.

Carrie (2013)

The film is a modern re-imagining of King's novel about a shy girl outcast by her peers and sheltered by her deeply religious mother, who uses her telekinetic powers with devastating effect after being a victim of a cruel prank at her senior prom.

Trading Places (2013)

The film tells the story of an upper-class commodities broker and a poor street hustler, whose lives cross when they are unwittingly made the subject of an elaborate bet to test how each man will perform when their life circumstances are swapped.

The King of Comedy (2013)

Rupert Pupkin is a passionate yet unsuccessful comic who craves nothing more than to be in the spotlight and to achieve this, he stalks and kidnaps his idol to take the spotlight for himself.

Lawless (1975)

The film is about the violent conflict between three bootlegging brothers—Forrest, Howard and Jack Bondurant—and the ruthless Deputy Charley Rakes and his men, who try to shut down the brothers' Prohibition-era moonshine business after Forrest refuses to pay the cops off.

The Insider (2019)

A fictionalized account of a true story, it is based on the 60 Minutes segment about Jeffrey Wigand, a whistleblower in the tobacco industry, covering the personal struggles of him and CBS producer Lowell Bergman as they defend his testimony against efforts to discredit and suppress it by CBS and Wigand's former employer.

Blue Thunder (2013)

The cop test pilot for an experimental police helicopter learns the sinister implications of the new vehicle.

Edge of Tomorrow (1984)

The film takes place in a future where most of Europe is invaded by an alien race. Major William Cage, a public relations officer with no combat experience, is forced by his superiors to join a landing operation against the aliens.

Marathon Man (2016)

In the film, "Babe" Levy, a graduate student, becomes embroiled in a plot by Nazi war criminal Christian Szell to retrieve stolen diamonds from a safety deposit box owned by Szell's dead brother. Babe becomes unwittingly involved due to his brother Doc's dealings with Szell.

Gone Baby Gone (1997)

Two private investigators hunt for a young girl abducted from her single mother's apartment in the Boston neighborhood of Dorchester.

Casino (2015)

Casino follows Sam "Ace" Rothstein, a Jewish American gambling expert handicapper who is asked by the Chicago Outfit to oversee the day-to-day casino and hotel operations at the Tangiers Casino in Las Vegas. Supporting characters include Nicky Santoro, a "made man" and friend of Ace, and Ginger McKenna, a streetwise chip hustler whom Ace marries and has a daughter with. The film details Ace's operation of the casino, the difficulties he confronts in his job, the Mafia's involvement with the casino, and the gradual breakdown of his relationships and standing, as Las Vegas changes over the years.

Lethal Weapon 2 (2019)

LAPD officers Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh protect an irritating federal witness, while taking on a gang of South African drug dealers hiding behind diplomatic immunity.

Mandy (1988)

The film follows Red Miller as he takes revenge on a hippie cult who murdered his wife.