Non-Stop

Non-Stop

★★ Director: Jaume Collet-Serra Year: 2014 So this is Taken meets FlightPlan, or what I imagine since I never saw that. It tries a bit hard and at ...

Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Hunger Games: Catchi

★★★ Director: Francis Lawrence Year: 2013 I enjoyed Hunger Games and thought the series would be a fun continuation. But the fact that they broke this up into ...

The Expendables 2

The Expendables 2

★★ Director: Simon West Year: 2012 It's amazing how formulaic all action films used to be. And with them getting intellectual, it's nice to grasp onto my childhood ...

Captain Phillips

Captain Phillips

★★★★★ Director: Paul Greengrass Year: 2013 I think I'm surprising myself by giving this film 5-stars. It's such a mainstream film. Even in the way the formulaic narrative ...

Black Mirror: Season 1 + 2

Black Mirror: Season

★★★★★ Creator: Charlie Brooker Year: 2011 All I can say is wow! This is the modern day Twilight Zone and all of it's opinions on the role of ...

Fast & Furious 6

Fast & Furious

★★★★ Director: Justin Lin Year: 2013 I quite enjoyed the 6th reincarnation of this film. Granted, maybe I got sentimental watching it after Paul Walker's passing. But I ...

Jackie Brown

Jackie Brown

★★★ Director: Quentin Tarantino Year: 1997 Here's a film that gets better with age. I know that I had seen this way back when it came out but ...

The Parallax View

The Parallax View

★★★ Director: Alan J. Pakula Year: 1974 As I continue catching up to old 70's classics, I found this one. The only one of the Pakula trilogies not ...

Seven Days in May

Seven Days in May

★★★★★ Director: John Frankenheimer Year: 1964 I can't believe I never heard of this film nor seen it. It's absolutely brilliant. Great plot (a potential US military coup ...

Gravity

Gravity

★★★★ Director: Alfonso Cuarón Year: 2013 You've all read and heard how brilliant this film is. How it's one of the best space films of all time. Well, ...

The Game

The Game

★★★★ Director: David Fincher Year: 1997 I've been wanting to watch this for so long that I had forgotten. Ever since it came out with one of the ...

Now You See Me

Now You See Me

★★ Director: Louis Leterrier Year: 2013 The film is sloppy. I love films about magic and this had such huge promise but it fell way too short. What's ...

Marathon Man

Marathon Man

★★★★ Director: John Schlesinger Year: 1976 Seventies thrillers are amazing. The pacing, the jump cuts and the bad sound. It really puts you on edge. I didn't know ...

Jack Reacher

Jack Reacher

★ Director: Christopher McQuarrie Year: 2012 What an absolutely awful and formulaic film. Even the title of it took away from the intrigue near the beginning. Anything and ...

Lord of War

Lord of War

★★ Director: Andrew Niccol Year: 2005 I had wanted to see this ever since all of the amazing reviews on Reddit. Well, I guess I expected a lot ...

A Good Day to Die Hard

A Good Day to Die Ha

★ Director: John Moore Year: 2013 This is easily one of the worst films I've ever scene. It's like Bruce Willis was under contract to star in one ...

The Impossible

The Impossible

★★★ Director: Juan Antonio Bayona Year: 2012 Everyone knows the story of the devastating tsunami. So when it actually hits, the way it's shot and more importantly the ...

Killing Them Softly

Killing Them Softly

★★★ Director: Andrew Dominik Year: 2012 The opening credits is one of the smartest and chilling I've seen in a while. And it's so simple, just an amazing ...