Hereafter

Hereafter

★★ Creator: Clint Eastwood Year: 2010 What a massive disappointment. Now I realize why it left the theaters so quickly. The first 15 minutes are an amazing scene ...

Once Upon a Time in America

Once Upon a Time in

★★★★ Creator: Sergio Leone Year: 1984 I have never seen this masterpiece, always wanted to, just never had the time. Because it is a time investment, it's quite ...

Unstoppable

Unstoppable

★★★★ Creator: Tony Scott Year: 2010 Even with its simple premise, this is how you do a summer blockbuster. Tony Scott is the master of timing and this ...

You Don’t Know Jack

You Don’t Know

★★★★ Creator: Barry Levinson Year: 2010 Al Pacino should take more roles like this – playing a humble, powerless man. He did an incredible performance. Aside from the ...

Cashback

Cashback

★★★ Creator: Sean Ellis Year: 2006 So I had never heard of this film but it came up in Netflix as a recommend.  And with a cover like ...

Big

Big

★★★★ Creator: Penny Marshall Year: 1998 Again, was sick and lying in bed. And what better film to make you feel like a kid than Big. Love this ...

The Girl Who Played With Fire

The Girl Who Played

★★★ Creator: Daniel Alfredson Year: 2009 So the second film in the Millenium series didn't hold up compared to the original. Granted, there were some new interesting characters ...

The American

The American

★★ Creator: Anton Corbijn Year: 2010 Clearly, the best thing about this film is the film poster! A nice retro Hitchcock styling that set expectations for the film. ...

The Bank Job

The Bank Job

★★★ Creator: Roger Donaldson Year: 2008 The fact that this is based on a true story makes it that much more awesome. Set in the late 60s/early 70s, ...

Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky

Coco Chanel & I

★★ Creator: Jan Kounen Year: 2009 There's obviously going to be comparisons between this film and Coco Before Chanel. Whereas that film concentrated more towards her beginnings, this ...

Die Fälscher (The Counterfeiters)

Die Fälscher (The C

★★★★ Creator: Stefan Ruzowitzky Year: 2007 An incredible, true-story about a counterfeiting ring of Jews in a Nazi concentration camp. The fact that they pulled aside con-men, bank ...

Blue Valentine

Blue Valentine

★★★★ Creator: Derek Cianfrance Year: 2010 I gotta say this is one crazy film. If you happen to watch the trailer, you'd expect it to be one of ...

The Company Men

The Company Men

★★ Creator: John Wells Year: 2010 So this film had a lot of potential because of the reality of the economic crisis. The plot being, there's a series ...

The Fighter

The Fighter

★★★★★ Creator: David O. Russell Year: 2010 This is my FAVORITE film for 2010. It would get my vote for Best Picture. It's that good. Watch it! This is ...

The King’s Speech

The King’s Spe

★★★★ Creator: Tom Hooper Year: 2010 Colin Firth was my favorite actor last year for A Single Man, so it's great seeing him get the Oscar nod again ...

Casino Jack

Casino Jack

★★★ Creator: George Hickenlooper Year: 2010 The best part of this film is that Jack Abramoff comes across as a likable guy. Someone you can go hang and ...

Animal Kingdom

Animal Kingdom

★★★ Creator: David Michôd Year: 2010 I suppose the biggest surprise about this film is Jacki Weaver's Oscar nomination. I was sure this film would have been nominated ...

Black Swan

Black Swan

★★★ Creator: Darren Aronofsky Year: 2010 I had expected the ballet version of The Wrestler. But it wasn't meant to be. This is quite psycho in it's approach, ...