Cave of Forgotten Dreams

Cave of Forgotten Dr

★★★ Director: Werner Herzog Year: 2010 I remember when this was out in theaters because a friend of ours said they were going to watch this in ...

Battle of Algiers

Battle of Algiers

★★★★★ Director: Gillo Pontecorvo Year: 1966 This is one of the greatest films of all time! Absolutely amazing. Granted, I think you need to be in ...

Taken

Taken

★★★★ Director: Pierre Morel Year: 2008 This was the third time I've seen this film. It was on TV and my wife commented she had never seen ...

Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer

Client 9: The Rise a

★★★ Director: Alex Gibney Year: 2010 I was really looking forward to this documentary just because of how juicy the subject matter is. I think the only ...

Eames: The Architect and the Painter

Eames: The Architect

★★★ Director: Jason Cohn, Bill Jersey Year: 2011 So I had high hopes for this film, anticipating it's DVD release. It was only okay. It relied too ...

Terror’s Advocate

Terror’s Advoc

★★★★★ Director: Barbet Schroeder Year: 2007 This is one of the most fascinating, educational and frightening films I've seen in a long time. Jacques Vergès is absolutely ...

The Ides of March

The Ides of March

★★★★ Director: George Clooney Year: 2011 This is a terrific film and I get why they released it when they did, just to get on the awards ...

The Help

The Help

★★★★ Director: Tate Taylor Year: 2011 It absolutely blows my mind that the subject and thoughts expressed in this film were actually the norm less than ...

Touchez Pas au Grisbi

Touchez Pas au Grisb

★★★ Director: Jacques Becker Year: 1954 So I had to see this based upon Godard's comments on Rififi, that this was a much better film than that. ...

Contagion

Contagion

★★ Director: Steven Soderbergh Year: 2011 The trailer for this was so well done that it made me want to watch it. Unfortunately, the trailer was probably ...

Page One: Inside the New York Times

Page One: Inside the

★★★ Director: Andrew Rossi Year: 2011 Quite an insightful look inside the Times. I only wished the film was edited better as it's broken up into three ...

Rififi

Rififi

★★★★★ Director: Jules Dassin Year: 1955 This has been a recommended film to me for almost three years but I never got around to view it. Not ...

Margin Call

Margin Call

★★★★ Director: J.C. Chandor Year: 2011 I didn't know anything about this film other than the amazing cast. And I gotta say, I really enjoyed it. First, ...

Hugo

Hugo

★★★★★ Director: Martin Scorsese Year: 2011 Hugo is such a surprise hit. The trailers looked so awful I had no intention of seeing it, but the positive ...

Miracle on 34th Street

Miracle on 34th Stre

★★ Director: George Seaton Year: 1947 I'm surprised I had never seen this Xmas classic. But all I could think about was, was this the turning point ...

Bananas

Bananas

★★★ Director: Woody Allen Year: 1971 Continuing my viewing of Woody's back catalog, here's one of his earliest films and quite an original storytelling style for 1971. It ...

Cars 2

Cars 2

★★★ Director: John Lasseter, Brad Lewis Year: 2011 Definitely not as good as the original. Granted, this sequel was more about Mater than Lightning, maybe that's why. But ...

Louis CK: Live at the Beacon

Louis CK: Live at th

★★★ Director: Louis C.K. Year: 2011 There's some really funny bits in there. But what's more interesting and what will get people to watch/download this film more is ...