Fast & Furious 6

Fast & Furious

★★★★ Director: Justin Lin Year: 2013 I quite enjoyed the 6th reincarnation of this film. Granted, maybe I got sentimental watching it after Paul Walker's passing. But I ...

WanderLust

WanderLust

★★ Director: David Wain Year: 2012 So I was just going through films in my collection that I had never seen and this was on the list. Now, ...

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 ...

Turbo

Turbo

★★ Director: David Soren Year: 2013 This is one of those films where the overplay and media buy of trailers killed it before it even reached theaters. I ...

The Parallax View

The Parallax View

★★★ Director: Alan J. Pakula Year: 1974 As I continue catching up to old 70's classics, I found this one. The only one of the Pakula trilogies not ...

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 ...

We’re the Millers

We’re the Mill

★★★ Director: Rawson Marshall Thurber Year: 2013 I'm starting to have some respect for Jason Sudeikis. The guy is funny. More so now than when he was on ...

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 ...

Thor: The Dark World

Thor: The Dark World

★★ Director: Alan Taylor, James Gunn Year: 2013 I was all excited to see my first 4D movie and well, it was okay. It felt like watching a ...

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, ...

Indie Game

Indie Game

★★★★★ Director: Lisanne Pajot, James Swirsky Year: 2012 What a beautifully crafted film. For one, I was a gamer in my 20s and I had no idea how ...

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 ...

Pacific Rim

Pacific Rim

★★ Director: Guillermo del Toro Year: 2013 Such high hopes for this film. Absolutely love the Japanese comic premise of the alien invasion, role of dinosaurs and awesome ...

Chasing Ice

Chasing Ice

★★★★ Director: Jeff Orlowski Year: 2012 Fascinating documentary that follows National Geographic photographer James Balog and his documentation of the collapse of glaciers. It's more photography focused and ...

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 ...