Happy Feet Two

Happy Feet Two

★★★ Director: George Miller Year: 2011 This was obviously with the kids. And it's great to have an excuse to watch a mind-numbing but entertaining film. There's ...

The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games

★★★ Director: Gary Ross Year: 2012 It's difficult to call this a rip-off of Battle Royale, since it's based upon a successful book trilogy, but it's definitely ...

The Adventures of Tin Tin

The Adventures of Ti

★★★ Director: Steven Spielberg Year: 2011 Visually, this film is unique and the camera movements and tracking are incredible. There's a gorgeous sequence where Tin Tin ...

The Jungle Book

The Jungle Book

★★★ Director: Wolfgang Reitherman Year: 1967 The beauty of having kids is watching all of the classics that I never saw as a kid. So this was ...

Babette’s Feast

Babette’s Feas

★★★ Director: Gabriel Axel Year: 1987 The only reason I wanted to see this is because some guide rated this the best food movie of all time. ...

War Horse

War Horse

★★★ Director: Steven Spielberg Year: 2011 I'm going to call this film for what it is: the Forrest Gump of horses! I'm not sure what the discussion ...

Intolerable Cruelty

Intolerable Cruelty

★★★ Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen Year: 2003 I've probably seen the beginning of this film about five times and never remembered the rest. But what I ...

Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Impassioned Eye

Henri Cartier-Bresso

★★★ Director: Heinz Bütler Year: 2003 This was a bit difficult to get through. At first I was annoyed by the use of VO for the translation ...

My Fair Lady

My Fair Lady

★★★ Director: George Cukor Year: 1964 Everybody knows how much I LOVE Audrey Hepburn. And I'm surprised I never seen this. Granted, I've had it forever, but ...

Three Days of the Condor

Three Days of the Co

★★★ Director: Sydney Pollack Year: 1975 This was on TV and I had never seen it. It's such a simple storyline line. Or rather, that's how it ...

Cave of Forgotten Dreams

Cave of Forgotten Dr

★★★ Director: Werner Herzog Year: 2010 I remember when this was out in theaters because a friend of ours said they were going to watch this in ...

Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer

Client 9: The Rise a

★★★ Director: Alex Gibney Year: 2010 I was really looking forward to this documentary just because of how juicy the subject matter is. I think the only ...

Eames: The Architect and the Painter

Eames: The Architect

★★★ Director: Jason Cohn, Bill Jersey Year: 2011 So I had high hopes for this film, anticipating it's DVD release. It was only okay. It relied too ...

Touchez Pas au Grisbi

Touchez Pas au Grisb

★★★ Director: Jacques Becker Year: 1954 So I had to see this based upon Godard's comments on Rififi, that this was a much better film than that. ...

Page One: Inside the New York Times

Page One: Inside the

★★★ Director: Andrew Rossi Year: 2011 Quite an insightful look inside the Times. I only wished the film was edited better as it's broken up into three ...

Bananas

Bananas

★★★ Director: Woody Allen Year: 1971 Continuing my viewing of Woody's back catalog, here's one of his earliest films and quite an original storytelling style for 1971. It ...

Cars 2

Cars 2

★★★ Director: John Lasseter, Brad Lewis Year: 2011 Definitely not as good as the original. Granted, this sequel was more about Mater than Lightning, maybe that's why. But ...

Louis CK: Live at the Beacon

Louis CK: Live at th

★★★ Director: Louis C.K. Year: 2011 There's some really funny bits in there. But what's more interesting and what will get people to watch/download this film more is ...