How to Get Ahead in
★★★ Director: Bruce Robinson Year: 1989 This is such a quirky movie. I've seen bits of it previously (not sure when). But when you're in advertising watching this, ...
The Man Who Knew Too
★★★ Director: Alfred Hitchcock Year: 1934 I actually thought I would be watching the 1956 version of the film. Crazy that Hitchcock remade his own film. Anyway, assuming ...
Salmon Fishing in th
★★★ Director: Lasse Hallström Year: 2011 Incredibly, I quite enjoyed this film. I remember seeing the trailer thinking this would be one of the stupidest films but it ...
Pariah
★★★ Director: Dee Rees Year: 2012 An absolutely powerful film about being a black, female, gay high school student and her coming to grips with who she is, ...
The Lorax
★★★ Director: Chris Renaud, Kyle Balda Year: 2012 Interesting that I saw this without the kids. I loved the book ever since I first heard it during MacroEconomics ...
Friends with Kids
★★★ Director: Jennifer Westfeldt Year: 2012 There were some hilarious lines from this film. Not to mention some truth to the film. But I'm a sucker for ...
The Return of the Je
★★★ Director: Richard Marquand Year: 1983 Called the weakest of the original trilogy. But it was one of the first memorable films I had seen at the cinemas ...
Brave
★★★ Director: Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman Year: 2012 This is one of the few Pixar films that I've wanted to see and then was disappointed by. It ...
The Brave One
★★★ Director: Neil Jordan Year: 2007 It goes without saying that I'm a huge Jodie Foster fan. She's just a very determined actor and think she's in her ...
Breaking Bad: Season
★★★ Creator: Vince Gilligan Year: 2008 Everyone was raving how I HAD to watch this show. Anyway, it was really slow going. Slow as in, it took me ...
Wendy and Lucy
★★★ Director: Kelly Reichardt Year: 2008 Michelle Williams is one of the best actresses of our time. This movie solidified it for me. When you think of the ...
The Avengers
★★★ Director: Joss Whedon Year: 2012 Like everyone, I was so psyched to watch this. But it's a mess of a film for the first half. Granted, I ...
In Time
★★★ Director: Andrew Niccol Year: 2011 This is a film that pisses you off. Only because it's such a brilliant premise, it's gorgeously shot and yet the editing, ...
Pickup on South Stre
★★★ Director: Samuel Fuller Year: 1953 I was in the mood for a noir film. But this one played out differently. I'm surprised this got a Criterion treatment ...
The Girl Who Kicked
★★★ Director: Daniel Alfredson Year: 2009 So I finally got around to watching the finale of the Millennium series. Well, it's not as good as the others. I ...
Chimpanzee
★★★ Director: Alastair Fothergill, Mark Linfield Year: 2012 This was a very entertaining family film. The footage is incredible, just couldn't believe how they captured such hi-res footage ...
