Lists

Picture of a movie: Candyman
Picture of a movie: Children of Men
Picture of a TV show: The Equalizer
Picture of a movie: The Rock
Picture of a movie: Extreme Prejudice
Picture of a movie: The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
Picture of a movie: Ocean's Eleven
Picture of a movie: Mary Poppins
Picture of a movie: Hope and Glory
Picture of a movie: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Picture of a movie: Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Picture of a movie: The War of the Gargantuas
Picture of a movie: The Road Warrior
Picture of a movie: Mad Max
Picture of a movie: Domino
Picture of a movie: Man on Fire

142 Movies, 4 Shows

From the Conversations of Tarantino and Edgar Wright

Sort by:
Recent Desc

All the references and recommendations from the Director’s Commentary of Hot Fuzz, as well as those from their conversation on the Empire Film Podcast

movies
movies

Children of Men

2006
In the dystopian world of 2027 London, humans have been incapable of reproducing for 18 year for an unknown reason, meaning the imminent extinction of the species. Britain is the one remaining civilized society on the planet, which has resulted in people wanting to migrate there, so it has become a police state to handle the immigrants, who are placed into refugee camps. Lowly government bureaucrat Theo Faron, once an activist, is approached by the Fishes, deemed a terrorist group, led by his ex-wife Julian Taylor, whom he hasn't seen in almost 20 years, since their marriage disintegrated after their infant son Dylan's death during the 2008 flu pandemic. Although the Fishes did use terrorist means in their on-going revolution against the state in the fight for immigrant rights, Julian vows that they now garner support solely by speaking to the people, and she wants Theo to use his connections to get transit papers for a young immigrant woman named Kee who needs to get to the coast. Although initially reluctant to do it because of the difficulty, Theo is able to grant Julian this favor, however with the change that he now needs to accompany Kee on her journey. As Theo and Kee progress on that journey, Theo learns more and more about what's going on, including the reason that Kee needs to get to the coast, the fact that no one in the group knows if their end destination even exists, and that his and Kee's lives are in greater danger than he believed when they started the journey. But Theo's sole mission becomes to help Kee at any cost for the survival of the species.

Inspired by this list

Picture of a movie: The Running Man
movies

The Running Man

1988
In the year 2019, the world economy has collapsed. The great freedoms of the United States are no longer, as the once great nation has sealed off its borders and become a militarized police state, censoring all film, art, literature, and communications. Even so, a small resistance force led by two revolutionaries manages to fight the oppression. With full control over the media, the government attempts to quell the nation's yearning for freedom by broadcasting a number of game shows on which convicted criminals fight for their lives. The most popular and sadistic of these programs is "The Running Man," hosted by Damon Killian. When a peaceful protest of starving citizens gathers in Bakersfield, California, a police officer named Ben Richards is ordered to fire on the crowd, which he refuses to do. Subdued by the other officers, the attack is carried out, and Richards is framed for the murder of almost a hundred unarmed civilians. Following a daring jail break months later, Richards is captured once again and forced to appear on "The Running Man" with three other convicts. With their help, he fights his way through a cadre of sadistic gladiators hunting them down through the ruins of a Los Angeles earthquake, but promising Killian that he'll return to settle the score when the show's host double-crosses him. In the meantime, the contestants must search through the ruins for the resistance in the hopes of finally broadcasting the truth about the government.

More lists by Niko Aiello

movies
movies
movies

    Best of All Time

    I guess I’m more of an arthouse snob than I thought
    February 2023
    10

    User Image: NikoAiello
    List by
    @NikoAiello
    movies
    movies
    movies

      Sci-Fi and/or Horror

      List includes: Stargate, Starship Troopers, Spaceballs
      February 2023
      1

      User Image: NikoAiello
      List by
      @NikoAiello
      movies
      movies
      movies

        Watchlist 2.0

        List includes: Songs from the Second Floor, Calvary, A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
        February 2023
        0

        User Image: NikoAiello
        List by
        @NikoAiello
        books
        Image of Books to Read
        Image of Books to Read

          Books to Read

          List includes: Underworld, language history, language change, and language relationship: an introduction to historical and comparative linguistics, meaning in language: an introduction to semantics and pragmatics
          September 2022
          0

          User Image: NikoAiello
          List by
          @NikoAiello
          movies
          movies
          movies

            Italian Neorealism

            Fellini = fantasy/baroque, Pasolini = sexuality, Rossellini = war, Visconti = decadence/decline of nobility
            March 2021
            3

            User Image: NikoAiello
            List by
            @NikoAiello
            movies
            movies
            movies

              Poliziotteschi Films

              1970s Italian crime/action films. Born out of the French gangster film resurgence of the late 1960s-1970s, as well as the cultural turmoil in Italy at the time. Violence, vigilantism, corruption, “greatness of the working class protagonist over the corrupt bureaucracy”
              March 2021
              1

              User Image: NikoAiello
              List by
              @NikoAiello
              movies
              movies
              movies

                Hong Kong New Wave

                Post-Colonialism, nostalgia, modernity and youth culture, and the ultimate cultural identity of Hong Kong
                March 2021
                3

                User Image: NikoAiello
                List by
                @NikoAiello
                movies
                movies
                movies

                  Neuer Deutscher Film

                  German films, 1962 - 1982, born out of the Oberhausen Manifesto. Disillusionment with post-War Germany, rejection of mainstream German cinema and art, socially critical. Would go on to influence Italian Neorealism, Nouvelle Vague, and British New Wave
                  March 2021
                  0

                  User Image: NikoAiello
                  List by
                  @NikoAiello
                  movies
                  movies
                  movies

                    Commedia all'italiana

                    Italian Comedies from the 1950s to 1970s: lots of satire, lots of "socially taboo" subjects, usually to the background of the working class with some sprinkles of social criticism
                    March 2021
                    1

                    User Image: NikoAiello
                    List by
                    @NikoAiello