A Night to Remember

A Night to Remember

★★★★ Director: Roy Ward Baker Year: 1958 James Cameron got a ton of source material for his version of Titanic from this film. It's absolutely stunning to see ...

Pariah

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 Illusionist

The Illusionist

★★★★ Director: Neil Burger Year: 2006 Quite tempted to give this 5-stars. Absolutely loved it. An original story. The acting was superb, even Jessica Biel. Although she ...

Chronicle

Chronicle

★★ Director: Josh Trank Year: 2012 The premise is interesting, a bit like a back story to a super hero comic. But only if it followed that path. ...

High Noon

High Noon

★★★★ Director: Fred Zinnemann Year: 1952 I'm not big on Westerns so never had any intentions of watching this. Until someone told me it's not necessarily a Western, ...

We Own the Night

We Own the Night

★★★★ Director: James Gray Year: 2007 Been holding off watching this one. Yes, yet another NYC film about the crazy, drug influenced club scenes of the 80s. But ...

The Brave One

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 ...

Wendy and Lucy

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 Best Years of Our Lives

The Best Years of Ou

★★★★ Director: William Wyler Year: 1946 A classic film about war and coming back to the reality of life. Feels very similar to what's happening now in the ...

50/50

50/50

★★★★ Director: Jonathan Levine Year: 2011 I remember when this came out and didn't think much about it. But when a film gets 93% on Rotten Tomatoes and ...

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest

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 ...

Atlas Shrugged Pt. 1

Atlas Shrugged Pt. 1

★★ Director: Paul Johansson Year: 2011 I'm not sure how to describe this awful film adaption of one of my favorite books. It's been rumored for so long ...

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

The Girl with the Dr

★★★★ Director: David Fincher Year: 2011 I suppose comparisons would have to be made with the original Swedish version of the film. And I gave them equal ratings. ...

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Extremely Loud and I

★★★★ Director: Stephen Daldry Year: 2011 First off, any film about 9/11 is going to be powerful and emotional and this film redeemed itself in its second half. ...

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 Descendents

The Descendents

★★★★ Director: Alexander Payne Year: 2011 What an absolutely f*cked up story. The premise being his wife is brain dead hooked up to machines and he discovers ...

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Tinker Tailor Soldie

★★★★ Director: Tomas Alfredson Year: 2011 I had to watch the first 30 minutes of this film twice in order to understand what was happening. This is ...

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. ...