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 ...

The Adventures of Tin Tin

The Adventures of Ti

★★★ Director: Steven Spielberg Year: 2011 Visually, this film is unique and the camera movements and tracking are incredible. There's a gorgeous sequence where Tin Tin ...

The Jungle Book

The Jungle Book

★★★ Director: Wolfgang Reitherman Year: 1967 The beauty of having kids is watching all of the classics that I never saw as a kid. So this was ...

Tower Heist

Tower Heist

★★ Director: Brett Ratner Year: 2011 I was in the mood for a really stupid, mainstream film. And this definitely fits the bill. Ben Stiller was pretty ...

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. ...

War Horse

War Horse

★★★ Director: Steven Spielberg Year: 2011 I'm going to call this film for what it is: the Forrest Gump of horses! I'm not sure what the discussion ...

Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead

Before the Devil Kno

★★ Director: Sidney Lumet Year: 2007 Another film that's been in my queue forever. I didn't know anything about it because the great cast. Unfortunately, the characters ...

Eros

Eros

★ Director: Michelangelo Antonioni, Steven Soderbergh, and Kar Wai Wong Year: 2004 I never thought I'd ever give a Wong Kar-Wai film only 1-star, but ...

Sabrina

Sabrina

★★★★ Director: Billy Wilder Year: 1954 A Billy Wilder film always has such great dialogue. My dream is to develop a modern film but with all of ...

Intolerable Cruelty

Intolerable Cruelty

★★★ Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen Year: 2003 I've probably seen the beginning of this film about five times and never remembered the rest. But what I ...

Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Impassioned Eye

Henri Cartier-Bresso

★★★ Director: Heinz Bütler Year: 2003 This was a bit difficult to get through. At first I was annoyed by the use of VO for the translation ...

The Bucket List

The Bucket List

★★ Director: Rob Reiner Year: 2007 So this is one of those films, just like The Shawshank Redemption, that's played on TNT/TBS all of the time but ...

The Secret World of Arrietty

The Secret World of

★★★★ Director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi Year: 2010 Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli fims are synonymous with great films, storytelling and animation. And this does not disappoint. Although, this ...

The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975

The Black Power Mixt

★★★★★ Director: Göran Olsson Year: 2011 THIS. FILM. IS. AMAZING! I was blown away. First, I thought it was an old film that aired and that they ...

My Fair Lady

My Fair Lady

★★★ Director: George Cukor Year: 1964 Everybody knows how much I LOVE Audrey Hepburn. And I'm surprised I never seen this. Granted, I've had it forever, but ...

Three Days of the Condor

Three Days of the Co

★★★ Director: Sydney Pollack Year: 1975 This was on TV and I had never seen it. It's such a simple storyline line. Or rather, that's how it ...

Attack the Block

Attack the Block

★ Director: Joe Cornish Year: 2011 Hmmm, what can I say. This movie sucked ass. I was hoping for more. I knew it would be bad, as ...