Drive

Drive

★★★★ Director: Nicolas Winding Refn Year: 2011 All I can say is, Cliff Martinez's soundtrack is possibly the soundtrack of the year, if not one of the best ...

The Goonies

The Goonies

★★★★ Director: Richard Donner Year: 1985 I wanted to watch this with the kids and then realized my wife had never seen it. And she still hadn't ...

Note By Note

Note By Note

★★★★ Director: Ben Niles Year: 2007 This is a fascinating documentary, even for someone like me who never learned to appreciate classical music, read music, nor how ...

How to Steal a Million

How to Steal a Milli

★★★★ Director: William Wyler Year: 1966 Everyone should know that I have a huge crush on Audrey Hepburn. She's one of my favorite actresses, ever. So it goes ...

Moneyball

Moneyball

★★★★ Director: Bennett Miller Year: 2011 I was very curious to see how you could make a film out of Moneyball. But the results were excellent. I'm ...

The Beaver

The Beaver

★★★★ Director: Jodie Foster Year: 2011 Now here's another film that I never thought I'd watch. First, it's Mel Gibson and the premise of a man wearing ...

The Guard

The Guard

★★★★ Director: John Michael McDonagh Year: 2011 I had seen trailers for this so many times and each time it didn't look entertaining and I had no ...

Best in Class

Best in Class

★★★★ Director: Christopher Guest Year: 2000 I was watching this again, researching for a project. I forgot how brilliant this film is. All of the characters are ...

X-Men First Class

X-Men First Class

★★★★ Director: Matthew Vaughn Year: 2011 This film was such a nice suprise. I can't remember watching a good X-Men film in awhile. But the new, young ...

Rango

Rango

★★★★ Director: Gore Verbinski Year: 2011 What a surprising film. Based upon the trailers, I had no intention to watch this film. Granted, I thought it was ...

E.T. The Extra-terrestrial

E.T. The Extra-terre

★★★★ Director: Steven Spielberg Year: 1982 I thought it would be nice to introduce this classic to my 6-yo daughter but then found out my wife had ...

Super 8

Super 8

★★★★ Director: J.J. Abrams Year: 2011 This isn't the film everyone expected from the big name duo directing and producing this. But in the spirit of E.T., The ...

Hanna

Hanna

★★★★ Director: Joe Wright Year: 2011 Such a great take on Little Red Riding Hood.  You didn't get that? Here's a character doing battle with the big bad ...

Battle Royale

Battle Royale

★★★★ Director: Kinji Fukasaku Year: 2000 Wow, what a surprising and amazing film. Not only could it only work as a Japanese film, but so much of the ...

Love Story

Love Story

★★★★ Director: Arthur Hiller Year: 1970 This has been on my To Watch list for ages but was never in the mood.  Now that I've seen it, wow. ...

ESPN 30 for 30

ESPN 30 for 30

★★★★ Director: Reggie Rock Bythewood, Bill Couturié, and 10 more credits Year: 2009-2010 What an incredible series of films. Even if you're not a sports fan, these ...

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2

Harry Potter and the

★★★★ Director: David Yates Year: 2011 Such a nice ending to the epic saga. What was great with this second part, they didn't dumb it down to do ...

Midnight in Paris

Midnight in Paris

★★★★ Director: Woody Allen Year: 2011 What an amazingly simple, fun and honest film. I love Woody Allen but his latest were trying to be a bit too ...