A list of film recommendations from the Earspitt community. DM on insta @earspitt or email us earspitt@gmail.com with your film recs to be included in the next listing!
dir. Bong Joon-ho
(rec by Casey Hoy)
"Just watched and she's rly rly cool...Bong always serves."
"A mother lives quietly with her son. One day, a girl is brutally killed, and the boy is charged with the murder. Now, it’s his mother’s mission to prove him innocent," (Letterboxd).
dir. Alexander Payne
(rec by Grant VanLanduyt)
"The story of Ruth Stoops, a woman who nobody even noticed – until she got pregnant. Now, everyone wants a piece of her. The film is a comedy about one woman caught in the ultimate tug-of-war: a clash of wild, noisy, ridiculous people that rapidly dissolves into a media circus," (Letterboxd).
dir. Simon Curtis
(rec by Michaela Garner)
"Sir Laurence Olivier is making a movie in London. Young Colin Clark, an eager film student, wants to be involved and he navigates himself a job on the set. When film star Marilyn Monroe arrives for the start of shooting, all of London is excited to see the blonde bombshell, while Olivier is struggling to meet her many demands and acting ineptness, and Colin is intrigued by her. Colin’s intrigue is met when Marilyn invites him into her inner world where she struggles with her fame, her beauty and her desire to be a great actress," (Letterboxd).
dir. Alain Guiraudie
(rec by Tully Olsen)
"Summertime. A cruising spot for men, tucked away on the shores of a lake. Franck falls in love with Michel, an attractive, potent and lethally dangerous man. Franck knows this, but wants to live out his passion anyway," (Letterboxd).
dir. Dave McCary
(rec by Graysen Conklin)
"Brigsby Bear Adventures is a children’s TV show produced for an audience of one: James. When the show abruptly ends, James’s life changes forever, and he sets out to finish the story himself," (Letterboxd).
dir. Xavier Dolan
(rec by Clarice Arther)
"A peculiar neighbor offers hope to a recent widow who is struggling to raise a teenager who is unpredictable and, sometimes, violent," (Letterboxd).
dir. David McNally
(rec by Grant VanLanduyt)
"Graced with a velvet voice, 21-year-old Violet Sanford heads to New York to pursue her dream of becoming a songwriter only to find her aspirations sidelined by the accolades and notoriety she receives at her “day” job as a barmaid at Coyote Ugly. The “Coyotes” as they are affectionately called tantalize customers and the media alike with their outrageous antics, making Coyote Ugly the watering hole for guys on the prowl," (Letterboxd).
dir. Richard Donner
(rec by Allyse Aramouni)
"A young teenager named Mikey Walsh finds an old treasure map in his father’s attic. Hoping to save their homes from demolition, Mikey and his friends Data Wang, Chunk Cohen, and Mouth Devereaux run off on a big quest to find the secret stash of Pirate One-Eyed Willie," (Letterboxd).
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