Easy A

Easy A

★★★★ Creator: Will Gluck Year: 2010 Knowing that I love high school films, this was awesome. First, it's a very original screenplay. Plus, Emma Stone's performance was solid. ...

Winter’s Bone

Winter’s Bone

★★★★ Creator: Debra Granik Year: 2010 Now this is a heavy film. It's slow, plays up some stereotypes of why I wouldn't want to drive through some parts ...

Ghost Writer, The

Ghost Writer, The

★★★★ Creator: Roman Polanski Year: 2010 This was a sleeper film for 2010. I had never heard of it until I read some articles on the best films ...

Town, The

Town, The

★★★★ Creator: Ben Affleck Year: 2010 I have a completely different perception of Ben Affleck now. The guy knows how to direct and act in a film. This ...

Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The

Girl With the Dragon

★★★★ Director: Niels Arden Oplev Year: 2009 So the book everyone has read has been translated in film form beautifully.  Noomi Rapace does an amazing job, the pacing ...

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

Scott Pilgrim vs. th

★★★★ Director: Edgar Wright Year: 2010 I really, really wanted to love this film. And if this film would have only been 30 minutes long I would have ...

Red

Red

★★★★ Director: Robert Schwentke Year: 2010 What an absolutely fun movie. Granted, I think it's because I'm getting old, but the idea of retired CIA agents back in ...

Ip Man

Ip Man

★★★★ Director: Wilson Yip Year: 2008 So my friend Eric recommended I watch this, or rather, Ip Man 2. Man, how did I ever miss this? An absolutely ...

Some Like It Hot

Some Like It Hot

★★★★ Director: Billy Wilder Year: 1959 I had never seen Some Like It Hot in it's entirety.  I had always seen bits and pieces. Billy Wilder was a ...

Solitary Man

Solitary Man

★★★★ Director: Brian Koppelman, David Levien Year: 2009 Michael Douglas is incredible in this role. I didn't know anything about this film but I quickly realized he plays ...

Back to the Future III

Back to the Future I

★★★★ Director: Robert Zemeckis Year: 1990 So, of course, I bypass Back to the Future II, because that one just sucks so badly. I blame Elizabeth Shue for ...

Back to the Future

Back to the Future

★★★★ Director: Robert Zemeckis Year: 1985 I was home sick and figured I should stay in bed, read some magazines and watch a film.  I'm reading EW and ...

Tell No One (Ne le dis à personne)

Tell No One (Ne le d

★★★★ Director: Guillaume Canet Year: 2006 This was a recommendation from a client and I gotta say, what a fucked-up film. One, because it was recommended to me ...

Expendables, The

Expendables, The

★★★★ Director: Sylvester Stallone Year: 2010 Now this is one fun film. Not sure why it took so long to get these guys together, but Stallone did a ...

Oceans

Oceans

★★★★ Director: Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud Year: 2009 This is simply a beautifully shot documentary. If you enjoyed Winged Migration, you'll love this. The only thing lacking is ...

Unforgiven

Unforgiven

★★★★ Director: Clint Eastwood Year: 1992 So, I'm not a fan of Westerns, thus why I had been holding off watching this film.  But it was absolutely terrific.  ...

Scarface

Scarface

★★★★ Director: Brian De Palma Year: 1983 So after sitting through a really bad and worse than chick-flick, I needed some testosterone filled flick. So pulled a classic ...

Kick-Ass

Kick-Ass

★★★★ Director: Matthew Vaughn Year: 2010 I didn't know what to expect, but Wow!  What a fun movie. It's such as a simple film with high-school humor that ...