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
★★★ 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
★★★★ 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
★★ 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
★★★★ 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
★★★★ 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
★★★ 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
★★★ 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 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
★★★★ 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
★★★ 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
★★ 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 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 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
★★★ 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
★★★★ 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 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 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. ...
