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 ...

Drinking Buddies

Drinking Buddies

★★ Director: Joe Swanberg Year: 2013 I had never heard of this film when it was released in the theaters. But it's gotten a huge amount of hype ...

American Hustle

American Hustle

★★★ Director: David O. Russell Year: 2013 I really wanted to like this film because the storyline is brilliant. However, as with great promising films, I only saw ...

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 ...

My Week with Marilyn

My Week with Marilyn

★★★ Director: Simon Curtis Year: 2011 This has been on my to watch list forever. The best thing this film did was demonstrate just how much of an ...

Barbara

Barbara

★★★ Director: Christian Petzold Year: 2012 A German film set in East Germany in 1980. It was enjoyable, a bit mainstream as international films go. Not much tension, ...

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 ...

The Grandmaster

The Grandmaster

★★★ Director: Wong Kar Wai Year: 2013 As most people know, Wong Kar Wai is one of my favorite directors. So why is it I prefer all ...

Frances Ha

Frances Ha

★★★★ Director: Noah Baumbach Year: 2013 One of the few films I've been wanting to watch for a long time. As you know, I love New York films, ...

12 Years a Slave

12 Years a Slave

★★★★ Director: Steve McQueen Year: 2013 This is one of the most original stories I had read/scene and it's even more surprising (although not so much) that it's ...

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 ...

Jobs

Jobs

★ Director: Joshua Michael Stern Year: 2013 I'm just on a roll with really bad movies. This was one was downright boring. This story is so familiar especially ...

Ip Man: The Final Fight

Ip Man: The Final Fi

★★★ Director: Herman Yau Year: 2013 I loved the original Ip Man series (Ip Man, Ip Man 2) much better than the other Herman Yau film, Ip Man ...

Flashdance

Flashdance

★★ Director: Adrian Lyne Year: 1983 I can't believe that Jerry Bruckheimer produced this; then again, I can believe that Joe Eszterhas wrote it. Having recently seen the ...

Arthur Newman

Arthur Newman

★★★ Director: Dante Ariola Year: 2012 I really love Colin Firth and Emily Blunt as actors. They're both incredible. And yet this film made me want more. It ...

On the Waterfront

On the Waterfront

★★★★ Director: Elia Kazan Year: 1954 One of those classics that I never saw. Marlon Brando utters his most famous line. And yet, I couldn't help wonder why ...

The Bling Ring

The Bling Ring

★ Director: Sofia Coppola Year: 2013 The only good thing about this film is Katie Chang, who comes across as a Shannen Doherty wannabe. But this film proves ...