The Adventures of Robin Hood

The Adventures of Ro

★★★ Director: Michael Curtiz, William Keighley Year: 1938 Watching this film right after a serious financial documentary sure shows how eclectic my tastes are. That's what happens when ...

Park Avenue – Money, Power and the American Dream

Park Avenue –

★★★ Director: Alex Gibney Year: 2013 First off, you can watch the entire documentary above. It's an interesting take on all of the documentaries out about the financial ...

The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby

★★★ Director: Baz Luhrmann Year: 2013 I had read all of the bad reviews and expected a horrible film. But it's not that bad. Partially, because the book ...

Marathon Man

Marathon Man

★★★★ Director: John Schlesinger Year: 1976 Seventies thrillers are amazing. The pacing, the jump cuts and the bad sound. It really puts you on edge. I didn't know ...

Bronson

Bronson

★★★ Director: Nicolas Winding Refn Year: 2008 This film was not what I expected. I'd say the first 2 minutes of it was my expectation. And then it ...

Men in Black 3

Men in Black 3

★ Director: Barry Sonnenfeld Year: 2012 This is one of those films that should have died with the sequel. I only liked the hype because they were shooting ...

Elysium

Elysium

★★★ Director: Neill Blomkamp Year: 2013 I was a little torn whether this was a 3-star or 4-star film. But thinking about Matt Damon's performance, I forgot at ...

Arrested Development: Season 4

Arrested Development

★★ Director: Mitchell Hurwitz Year: 2013 With all of the hype, it's just too bad they decided to edit the series this way. I especially liked some of ...

Spring Breakers

Spring Breakers

★★ Director: Harmony Korine Year: 2013 This film just proves you shouldn't watch films based upon their iTunes popularity. It's such rubbish, I had a difficult time making ...

The Master

The Master

★★★★★ Director: Paul Thomas Anderson Year: 2012 I have a hard time describing this film other than I wished it would never end. It is one of the ...

Sweet and Lowdown

Sweet and Lowdown

★★★★ Director: Woody Allen Year: 1999 This was the second time I've seen this and it definitely is a repeat worthy film. First off, Sean Penn is incredible. The ...

Don’t Stop Believing

Don’t Stop Bel

★★★★ Director: Ramona S. Diaz Year: 2012 I've been wanting to see this ever since I heard about it during the Tribeca Film Festival. Imagine my surprise finding ...

Admission

Admission

★ Director: Paul Weitz Year: 2013 Whoever signed off on this film should have been shot! Awful doesn't begin to describe it. You take the talents of Tina Fey ...

A Monster in Paris

A Monster in Paris

★★★ Director: Bibo Bergeron Year: 2011 What an absolutely strange film. It mashes up The Fly and The Phantom of the Opera together in an animated kids film. ...

World War Z

World War Z

★★★★ Director: Marc Forster Year: 2013 So I've read the book and yes, it's nothing like it. But what I enjoyed about this film is the updated style ...

American Beauty

American Beauty

★★★★ Director: Sam Mendes Year: 1999 I hadn't seen this film since it came out, which would have been over 14 years ago. Wow, this movie aged well. ...

Coffee Town

Coffee Town

★★ Director: Brad Copeland Year: 2013 So this film was pretty bad. Although, in hindsight it seems better. There were some great lines – "Brown Town"; "Newport with ...

Jack Reacher

Jack Reacher

★ Director: Christopher McQuarrie Year: 2012 What an absolutely awful and formulaic film. Even the title of it took away from the intrigue near the beginning. Anything and ...