Sweet and Lowdown

Sweet and Lowdown

★★★ Director: Woody Allen Year: 1999 Here's some Woody Allen films I never saw but am rediscovering after the documentary. It's a terrific faux-documentary film about this ...

Devil’s Double

Devil’s Double

★★★ Director: Lee Tamahori Year: 2011 Dominic Cooper deserves a best actor nomination for his performance in this grisly film. I think the fact that this is ...

Bill Cunningham New York

Bill Cunningham New

★★★★ Director: Richard Press Year: 2010 If you've ever perused the NYTimes and their style section to see fashion on the streets or even their society pages, then ...

Curb Your Enthusiasm: Season 8

Curb Your Enthusiasm

★★★ Creator: Larry David Year: 2011 I never really watched this show other then season 7 because of the Seinfeld reunion. I find him to be so ...

Woody Allen: A Documentary

Woody Allen: A Docum

★★★★★ Director: Robert B. Weide Year: 2011 This is an unprecedented documentary. It's incredible, but only if you like Woody Allen. Robert Weide got full access to ...

Rio

Rio

★★★ Director: Carlos Saldanha Year: 2011 This is my daughter's favorite film. Probably because she knows all of the characters and scenes after watching it twice on a ...

The Artist

The Artist

★★★★★ Director: Michel Hazanavicius Year: 2011 This is the BEST film of the year. Period. Absolutely amazing, original and enjoyable. Everyone must watch this. Now, I'm a huge fan ...

Cowboys & Aliens

Cowboys & Alien

★ Director: Jon Favreau Year: 2011 Wow, this film was so bad. It's such a great idea for a film, but the story was horrible, the acting possibly ...

Hollywood Ending

Hollywood Ending

★★★ Director: Woody Allen Year: 2002 This is one of those vintage Woody characters. But it's also a film that you feel like you've seen before. And ...

Before Sunset

Before Sunset

★★★★ Director: Richard Linklater Year: 2004 I was in the mood to watch both films after reading how they planned on making a third film, since we're ...

Before Sunrise

Before Sunrise

★★★★ Director: Richard Linklater Year: 1995 This is a film that gets better by age. Maybe because my memory of it is a couple of years before ...

The Notebook

The Notebook

★★★★ Director: Nick Cassavetes Year: 2004 I've seen that segment on the cover so many times thanks to Sprint and their don't talk while watching the film PSA. ...

Pina

Pina

★★★★★ Director: Wim Wenders Year: 2011 If you love Pina Bausch, this film is for you. We typically go and see her dance troupe every two years when ...

Hangover 2

Hangover 2

★★ Director: Todd Phillips Year: 2011 What an awful movie. It looks like some bad student idea for a film ripping off the original. Whereas the original was... ...

Melancholia

Melancholia

★★★ Director: Lars von Trier Year: 2011 I was all psyched to see this, given Kirsten Dunst's win for Best Actress at Cannes. Well, let's just say, it is ...

The Fog of War

The Fog of War

★★★★ Director: Errol Morris Year: 2003 What an incredible documentary on Robert McNamara, who Secretary of Defense during the Kennedy and Johnson administration as well as the first President ...

Crazy Stupid Love

Crazy Stupid Love

★★ Director: Glenn Ficarra, John Requa Year: 2011 I'm on a Ryan Gosling kick.  This film could have been amazing. The casting was terrific and their performances were ...

Drive

Drive

★★★★ Director: Nicolas Winding Refn Year: 2011 All I can say is, Cliff Martinez's soundtrack is possibly the soundtrack of the year, if not one of the best ...