Believe it or not, Hollywood heartthrob Brad Pitt is fast approaching 60 years old. However, the Oscar winner is showing no signs of slowing down just yet.
New footage has been revealed of his upcoming movie Bullet Train, while Pitt will also feature in Damien Chazelle's new movie Babylon later this year.
To celebrate his latest release, let's take a deep dive into some of Pitt's most stream-worthy movies to date.
Snatch, 2000
An often-overlooked gem of a performance, Guy Ritchie's typically Ritchie-esque British gangster movie is over the top and a prime example of what Brits call 'lad culture.'
Pitt plays Mickey, a traveler with a penchant for boxing and an accent that's hard to understand at the best of times.
He finds himself entangled in a web of disreputable individuals including bookies, boxing promoters, gangsters, and jewelers, all of whom are on the lookout only for themselves and a high-priced diamond.
Snatch was essentially Ritchie's spiritual follow-up to his 1998 London-gangster movie Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels which helped launch Jason Statham's career.
Pitt has never been afraid to venture outside of his comfort zone with certain roles, and Snatch has to rank up there as one of his strangest - but possibly best. And if nothing else, it's the movie that gave us one of his most quotable lines: "D'ya like dags?"
Snatch can be watched via subscription on Netflix.
The Big Short, 2015
One of the most remarkable and poignant movies of the decade, The Big Short depicts the events that led up to the financial crisis of 2007, and the select few who saw it coming.
Adam McKay's movie is a true Hollywood heavyweight, starring Christian Bale, Steve Carrell, and Ryan Gosling amongst many other notable names.
Pitt's Ben Rickert is a disillusioned former banker who left that murky world behind in order to find a more sustainable and morally clean living. His young neighbors, however, are enamored by the business world and in search of advice and assistance, calling upon Rickert to help them make a series of deals that they believe could be their breakthrough.
Rickert acts as a moral compass throughout, putting into perspective just what is at stake on a daily basis in the financial world, and the lives at risk thanks to Wall Street.
Pitt brings a level-headedness and earnest demeanor to the role, coming across as the hippie uncle we all need in our lives.
The Big Short is an important watch and can be rented/bought on Amazon Prime Video.
Fight Club, 1999
Not quite sure how to do this review given that the first rule of fight club is...well, you know.
Nothing is quite as it seems in this mind-bending movie by David Fincher. Edward Norton's character known only as The Narrator is an insomniac stuck in a mind-numbing predictable corporate existence. His life turns on a dime when Pitt's Tyler Durden enters his world. Durden's devil may care attitude represents a complete antithesis to The Narrator, and Durden introduces him to an underground fight club that changes his life for good.
This is one of the roles that will forever define Pritt's career and a movie that ranks among the best of its era.
Fight Club can be watched for free on TubiTV.
Moneyball, 2011
Based on the true story of Billy Beane and the 2002 Oakland A's, Moneyball sees Pitt take on the lead role as his underfunded underdog A's look to defy the odds.
Beane and his assistant Peter Brand, played by Jonah Hill, take to mathematics to find themselves a competitive team rather than relying solely on traditional scouting. The aim is to construct a roster of players who, for one reason or another, have been undervalued and overlooked by others around the league, but together could do something incredible.
While the movie does take some artistic liberties, this doesn't detract from its realist, almost documentary-like feel.
Moneyball can, and should, be watched via subscription on Netflix.
Inglorious Basterds, 2009
Set in the Second World War, this classic from Quentin Tarantino is another venture into the sometimes weird world of Pitt.
Inglorious Basterds sees a select group of Nazi hunters nicknamed the 'Basterds,' comprising of Jewish-American soldiers, as they look to assassinate Hitler and Goebbels at a film premiere. But it isn't just the 'Basterds' who are looking to wreak havoc at the movies, with the sole survivor of a Jewish family and movie theater owner (Shosanna) aiming to get her revenge against Hans Landa - a renowned "Jew Hunter."
Pitt's mustachioed Tennessean Lieutenant Aldo Raine leads the 'Basterds' throughout, accompanied by his idiosyncratic accent - particularly noticeable when he attempts to stumble his way through a conversation in Italian.
Inglorious Basterds can be watched via subscription on Hulu.
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