A personal archive of films, books, places, projects, and ideas.https://www.paladinchik.com/enhttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/a-beautiful-mind/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/a-beautiful-mind/A brilliant mathematician's work and his schizophrenia become impossible to tell apart.CinemaDramaBiographyhttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/a-clockwork-orange/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/a-clockwork-orange/A violent young man is conditioned by the state into being incapable of choosing wrong.CinemaDramaCrimeSci-Fihttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/above-the-rainbow/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/above-the-rainbow/A daydreaming Soviet schoolboy is granted the ability to make his boasts come true.CinemaFantasyDramahttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/amadeus/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/amadeus/A court composer confesses his envy of a vulgar young genius he could not out-write.CinemaDramaBiographyMusichttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/american-beauty/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/american-beauty/A suburban father blows up his own life and narrates it from somewhere after the end.CinemaDramahttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/american-gangster/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/american-gangster/A Harlem heroin importer builds an empire while an outcast detective assembles a case.CinemaCrimeBiographyDramahttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/american-history-x/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/american-history-x/A neo-Nazi leaves prison determined to pull his younger brother back before it is too late.CinemaDramaCrimehttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/american-psycho/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/american-psycho/A Manhattan investment banker narrates his grooming routine and his murders in the same voice.CinemaDramaHorrorComedyhttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/arizona-dream/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/arizona-dream/A young New Yorker is dragged to Arizona for a wedding and into other people's dreams.CinemaDramaComedyFantasyhttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/atonement/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/atonement/A child's lie about what she saw ruins two lives, and the war finishes what she started.CinemaDramaRomanceWarhttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/before-sunrise/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/before-sunrise/Two strangers get off a train in Vienna and spend one night walking and talking.CinemaDramaRomancehttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/big-fish/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/big-fish/A dying father's tall tales are finally taken apart, and put back together, by his son.CinemaDramaFantasyAdventurehttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/billy-elliot/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/billy-elliot/A miner's son in a striking County Durham town discovers he wants to dance.CinemaDramahttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/birdman/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/birdman/A washed-up superhero actor stages a Broadway play in one apparently unbroken take.CinemaDramaComedyhttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/blade-runner-2049/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/blade-runner-2049/A quiet, monumental sequel about memory, loneliness, artificial life, and the need to matter.CinemaSci-FiDramaNeo-noirhttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/blood-diamond/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/blood-diamond/A smuggler, a fisherman and a journalist converge on one stone in wartime Sierra Leone.CinemaAdventureDramaThrillerhttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/boogie-nights/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/boogie-nights/A young man becomes a star of the Californian porn industry just as the era ends.CinemaDramahttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/bram-stokers-dracula/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/bram-stokers-dracula/Coppola's operatic retelling of the vampire novel as a story of grief and obsession.CinemaHorrorRomanceFantasyhttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/burn-after-reading/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/burn-after-reading/Two gym employees find a disc they cannot read and try to sell it to the Russians.CinemaComedyCrimeDramahttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/career-opportunities/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/career-opportunities/A small-town liar locked in overnight at a discount store finds he is not alone.CinemaComedyRomancehttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/casino/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/casino/A mob-run Las Vegas casino is lost to greed, a marriage and an old friend.CinemaCrimeDramaBiographyhttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/chasing-amy/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/chasing-amy/A comic book artist falls for a woman whose past he cannot stop interrogating.CinemaDramaComedyRomancehttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/children-of-men/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/children-of-men/Eighteen years into global infertility, one man is asked to move the only pregnant woman alive.CinemaSci-FiDramaThrillerhttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/cinderella-man/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/cinderella-man/A ruined Depression-era boxer returns to the ring to feed his family.CinemaDramaBiographyhttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/come-and-see/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/come-and-see/A Belarusian boy joins the partisans in 1943 and is aged past recognition by what he sees.CinemaWarDramahttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/dazed-and-confused/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/dazed-and-confused/The last day of school in 1976 Texas, followed hour by hour across a dozen teenagers.CinemaComedyDramaComing-of-agehttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/dead-poets-society/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/dead-poets-society/A new English teacher at a rigid boarding school teaches his students to read as if it mattered.CinemaDramahttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/dogma/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/dogma/Two fallen angels find a loophole back into heaven, which would unmake existence.CinemaComedyFantasyAdventurehttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/drive/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/drive/A stunt driver who moonlights as a getaway man breaks his own rule for a neighbour.CinemaCrimeDramaThrillerhttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/eastern-promises/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/eastern-promises/A London midwife's discovery pulls her into a Russian crime family and its driver.CinemaCrimeDramaThrillerhttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/eternal-sunshine-of-the-spotless-mind/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/eternal-sunshine-of-the-spotless-mind/A man erasing his ex-girlfriend from his memory changes his mind halfway through the procedure.CinemaDramaRomanceSci-Fihttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/eyes-wide-shut/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/eyes-wide-shut/A doctor spends one night following his wife's confession into places he should not be.CinemaDramaMysteryThrillerhttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/fear-and-loathing-in-las-vegas/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/fear-and-loathing-in-las-vegas/A journalist and his attorney drive to Las Vegas with a trunk full of drugs and no assignment left.CinemaComedyDramaAdventurehttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/fight-club/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/fight-club/An insomniac office worker and a soap salesman start a club that quickly stops being about fighting.CinemaDramaThrillerhttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/filth/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/filth/A corrupt Edinburgh detective schemes his way toward a promotion while coming apart entirely.CinemaDramaComedyCrimehttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/forrest-gump/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/forrest-gump/A guileless man from Alabama keeps stumbling into the century while waiting for one person.CinemaDramaRomancehttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/full-metal-jacket/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/full-metal-jacket/Marine recruits are broken down in boot camp, then sent to Vietnam to find out why.CinemaWarDramahttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/gattaca/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/gattaca/In a society sorted by genetics, a man borrows another's DNA to reach space.CinemaSci-FiDramaThrillerhttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/girl-interrupted/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/girl-interrupted/A young woman signs herself into a psychiatric hospital in the 1960s and finds the ward hard to leave.CinemaDramaBiographyhttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/gladiator/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/gladiator/A betrayed Roman general is sold into the arena and fights his way back toward the emperor.CinemaActionDramaAdventurehttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/good-morning-vietnam/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/good-morning-vietnam/An armed forces radio DJ in Saigon is loved by the troops and resented by command.CinemaComedyDramaWarhttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/good-will-hunting/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/good-will-hunting/A janitor at MIT with a gift for mathematics is pushed toward therapy and out of his defences.CinemaDramahttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/goodfellas/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/goodfellas/Thirty years inside the New York mob, narrated by a man who always wanted to be a gangster.CinemaCrimeDramaBiographyhttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/green-street/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/green-street/An expelled Harvard student falls in with a West Ham football firm and learns its rules.CinemaDramaCrimehttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/her/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/her/A lonely letter writer falls in love with an operating system, and the film takes it seriously.CinemaDramaSci-FiRomancehttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/i-origins/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/i-origins/A molecular biologist studying the eye finds evidence that unsettles everything he believes.CinemaDramaSci-Fihttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/i-saw-the-devil/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/i-saw-the-devil/An agent hunts his fiancée's killer and keeps letting him go so it can continue.CinemaThrillerCrimeHorrorhttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/identity/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/identity/Ten strangers stranded at a desert motel are killed off one at a time.CinemaThrillerMysteryHorrorhttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/in-bruges/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/in-bruges/Two hitmen are sent to wait in a Belgian tourist town after a job goes wrong.CinemaComedyCrimeDramahttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/inglourious-basterds/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/inglourious-basterds/A Jewish-American commando unit and a cinema owner separately plot the end of the Third Reich.CinemaWarDramaAdventurehttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/inside-im-dancing/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/inside-im-dancing/Two disabled young men leave institutional care and try to live on their own terms.CinemaDramaComedyhttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/insomnia/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/insomnia/A detective in the Alaskan midnight sun cannot sleep, and cannot undo his own mistake.CinemaThrillerCrimeMysteryhttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/interstellar/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/interstellar/A large-scale space film about time, distance, survival, and love under impossible pressure.CinemaSci-FiAdventureDramahttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/k-pax/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/k-pax/A psychiatric patient claims to be from another planet and is impossible to disprove.CinemaDramaSci-FiMysteryhttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/kids/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/kids/A day in the life of New York teenagers, filmed with documentary flatness and no comfort.CinemaDramahttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/knockin-on-heavens-door/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/knockin-on-heavens-door/Two terminally ill strangers steal a car and drive for the sea neither has ever seen.CinemaCrimeComedyDramahttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/legends-of-the-fall/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/legends-of-the-fall/Three brothers on a Montana ranch are pulled apart by war and by the same woman.CinemaDramaRomanceWarhttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/leon-the-professional/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/leon-the-professional/A silent hitman takes in the orphaned girl next door, and neither of them knows how to stop.CinemaCrimeDramaThrillerhttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/lilya-4-ever/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/lilya-4-ever/Abandoned by her mother in a post-Soviet housing block, a teenage girl is trafficked abroad.CinemaDramahttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/lord-of-war/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/lord-of-war/An arms dealer narrates his rise through every war that needed him.CinemaCrimeDramaBiographyhttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/mallrats/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/mallrats/Two men dumped on the same day spend the day in a shopping mall not fixing anything.CinemaComedyRomancehttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/manchester-by-the-sea/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/manchester-by-the-sea/A janitor returns to his home town as guardian of his nephew and meets his own past.CinemaDramahttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/meet-joe-black/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/meet-joe-black/Death takes human form to understand what he has been ending, and stays for a while.CinemaDramaRomanceFantasyhttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/memento/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/memento/A man who cannot form new memories hunts his wife's killer using notes and tattoos.CinemaMysteryThrillerDramahttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/misfits/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/misfits/Young offenders on community service are given powers none of them wanted.CinemaDramaComedySci-FiSerieshttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/mr-robot/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/mr-robot/A security engineer with severe social anxiety is recruited by an anarchist hacking collective.CinemaDramaThrillerSerieshttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/mystic-river/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/mystic-river/Three childhood friends are reunited by a murder and by what happened to one of them.CinemaCrimeDramaMysteryhttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/no-country-for-old-men/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/no-country-for-old-men/A welder takes money from a drug deal gone wrong and is followed by something implacable.CinemaCrimeThrillerDramahttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/one-flew-over-the-cuckoos-nest/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/one-flew-over-the-cuckoos-nest/A convict feigning insanity lands in a psychiatric ward run on quiet, total control.CinemaDramahttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/pay-it-forward/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/pay-it-forward/A boy answers a school assignment with a scheme for changing the world three people at a time.CinemaDramahttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/platoon/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/platoon/A volunteer infantryman in Vietnam is caught between two sergeants and their two moralities.CinemaWarDramahttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/preacher/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/preacher/A small-town Texas preacher gains an impossible power and goes looking for God.CinemaDramaFantasyComedySerieshttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/proof-1991/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/proof-1991/A blind man photographs the world so someone else can tell him whether it is true.CinemaDramahttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/pulp-fiction/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/pulp-fiction/Hitmen, a boxer and a gangster's wife cross paths in a story told deliberately out of order.CinemaCrimeDramahttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/red-lights/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/red-lights/Two debunkers of the paranormal take on a famous psychic returning after decades.CinemaThrillerMysteryDramahttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/requiem-for-a-dream/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/requiem-for-a-dream/Four people in Coney Island chase separate highs and arrive at the same place.CinemaDramahttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/rounders/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/rounders/A law student who swore off poker is pulled back to the table by a friend's debt.CinemaDramaCrimehttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/se7en/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/se7en/Two detectives track a killer staging murders around the seven deadly sins.CinemaCrimeThrillerMysteryhttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/seven-psychopaths/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/seven-psychopaths/A blocked screenwriter is dragged into his friend's dog-kidnapping business.CinemaComedyCrimeDramahttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/sleepers/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/sleepers/Four boys abused in a juvenile facility engineer their revenge as adults, through the courts.CinemaDramaCrimeThrillerhttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/snatch/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/snatch/A stolen diamond, an unlicensed boxing promoter and several incompetent criminals collide.CinemaCrimeComedyhttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/solace/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/solace/A psychic doctor helps the FBI track a killer whose gift matches his own.CinemaThrillerCrimeMysteryhttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/t2-trainspotting/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/t2-trainspotting/Twenty years on, the same men meet again with nothing resolved and less time left.CinemaDramaCrimehttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/taking-lives/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/taking-lives/An FBI profiler hunts a killer who assumes the identities of the men he murders.CinemaThrillerCrimeMysteryhttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/taxi-driver/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/taxi-driver/An insomniac Vietnam veteran drives nights in New York and decides someone should act.CinemaDramaCrimehttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/the-assassination-of-jesse-james/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/the-assassination-of-jesse-james/A young admirer joins the James gang and circles the man he will eventually shoot.CinemaWesternDramaBiographyhttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/the-basketball-diaries/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/the-basketball-diaries/A promising teenage athlete and writer slides into heroin addiction on the streets of New York.CinemaDramaBiographyComing-of-agehttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/the-boy-in-the-striped-pyjamas/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/the-boy-in-the-striped-pyjamas/The son of a camp commandant befriends a boy on the other side of the fence.CinemaDramaWarhttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/the-breakfast-club/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/the-breakfast-club/Five students from five cliques serve Saturday detention together and stop performing.CinemaDramaComedyhttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/the-bucket-list/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/the-bucket-list/Two terminally ill men leave the hospital to finish a list before they run out of time.CinemaDramaComedyAdventurehttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/the-chaser/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/the-chaser/A former detective turned pimp realises his missing women share one client.CinemaThrillerCrimehttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/the-courier-1986/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/the-courier-1986/A sardonic Moscow school-leaver drifts between jobs and adults who want him to become someone.CinemaDramaComedyhttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/the-curious-case-of-benjamin-button/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/the-curious-case-of-benjamin-button/A man born elderly ages backwards, and every love he has runs out of shared time.CinemaDramaFantasyRomancehttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/the-dark-knight-rises/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/the-dark-knight-rises/Eight years after taking the blame, a retired Batman faces a man who breaks him first.CinemaActionDramaThrillerhttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/the-devils-own/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/the-devils-own/An IRA gunman hides in the home of a New York cop who does not know who he is.CinemaThrillerCrimeDramahttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/the-double/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/the-double/A nonentity clerk meets his exact double, who is everything he is not.CinemaDramaThrillerComedyhttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/the-dreamers/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/the-dreamers/Three film-obsessed students shut themselves in a Paris flat while 1968 happens outside.CinemaDramaRomancehttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/the-faculty/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/the-faculty/Students at an Ohio high school work out that their teachers are no longer human.CinemaHorrorSci-FiThrillerhttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/the-frozen-ground/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/the-frozen-ground/An Alaska state trooper works with a teenage survivor to convict a serial killer.CinemaCrimeThrillerDramahttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/the-game/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/the-game/A cold investment banker is given a birthday game that takes his life apart.CinemaThrillerMysteryDramahttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/the-good-son/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/the-good-son/A boy sent to stay with relatives realises his young cousin is dangerous and no one believes him.CinemaThrillerDramahttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/the-grand-budapest-hotel/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/the-grand-budapest-hotel/A legendary concierge and his lobby boy are drawn into a fight over a stolen painting.CinemaComedyDramaAdventurehttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/the-green-mile/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/the-green-mile/Death row guards in the 1930s meet a giant of a prisoner with an inexplicable gift.CinemaDramaFantasyCrimehttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/the-hateful-eight/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/the-hateful-eight/Eight strangers wait out a Wyoming blizzard in one room, and at least one of them is lying.CinemaWesternCrimeMysteryhttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/the-hunt/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/the-hunt/A kindergarten teacher is accused by a child, and his town decides before the facts do.CinemaDramahttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/the-last-king-of-scotland/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/the-last-king-of-scotland/A young Scottish doctor becomes Idi Amin's personal physician and cannot get out.CinemaDramaBiographyThrillerhttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/the-lord-of-the-rings-the-fellowship-of-the-ring/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/the-lord-of-the-rings-the-fellowship-of-the-ring/A hobbit leaves the Shire with a ring that must be destroyed, and a company forms around him.CinemaFantasyAdventureDramahttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/the-men-who-stare-at-goats/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/the-men-who-stare-at-goats/A reporter meets a veteran of a US Army unit trained in paranormal warfare.CinemaComedyWarhttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/the-mist/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/the-mist/Shoppers trapped in a supermarket by a strange mist turn on each other faster than on it.CinemaHorrorSci-FiThrillerhttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/the-nice-guys/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/the-nice-guys/A bruiser and an incompetent private eye investigate a missing girl in 1970s Los Angeles.CinemaComedyCrimeMysteryhttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/the-pianist/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/the-pianist/A Polish-Jewish pianist survives the Warsaw ghetto and the ruins that follow it.CinemaDramaBiographyWarhttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/the-place-beyond-the-pines/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/the-place-beyond-the-pines/A stunt rider robs banks for his son, and the consequences reach the next generation.CinemaDramaCrimehttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/the-pledge/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/the-pledge/A retiring detective promises a mother he will find her daughter's killer, and cannot stop.CinemaCrimeDramaMysteryhttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/the-prestige/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/the-prestige/Two Victorian magicians destroy each other over a trick neither will explain.CinemaDramaMysterySci-Fihttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/the-royal-tenenbaums/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/the-royal-tenenbaums/A family of former child prodigies reassembles around a father faking his own death.CinemaComedyDramahttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/the-shawshank-redemption/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/the-shawshank-redemption/A banker convicted of murder spends decades quietly outlasting the prison that holds him.CinemaDramaCrimehttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/the-summit-of-the-gods/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/the-summit-of-the-gods/A photographer follows a solitary climber and a camera that may rewrite Everest's history.CinemaAnimationDramaAdventurehttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/the-thing/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/the-thing/An Antarctic research crew is infiltrated by something that can perfectly imitate any of them.CinemaHorrorSci-FiThrillerhttps://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/the-truman-show/https://www.paladinchik.com/cinema/the-truman-show/A man discovers his hometown is a television set and his life a 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