How to Get Ahead in
★★★ Director: Bruce Robinson Year: 1989 This is such a quirky movie. I've seen bits of it previously (not sure when). But when you're in advertising watching this, ...
The Seven Year Itch
★★ Director: Billy Wilder Year: 1955 I gotta say, I love Billy Wilder films because they're smartly written but this one just sucked. Sure, it's supposed to be ...
Salmon Fishing in th
★★★ Director: Lasse Hallström Year: 2011 Incredibly, I quite enjoyed this film. I remember seeing the trailer thinking this would be one of the stupidest films but it ...
The Savages
★★ Director: Tamara Jenkins Year: 2007 This has been on my list forever. Mostly because I just love Chris Ware's poster design. I had absolutely no idea what ...
The Lorax
★★★ Director: Chris Renaud, Kyle Balda Year: 2012 Interesting that I saw this without the kids. I loved the book ever since I first heard it during MacroEconomics ...
Friends with Kids
★★★ Director: Jennifer Westfeldt Year: 2012 There were some hilarious lines from this film. Not to mention some truth to the film. But I'm a sucker for ...
Project X
★★ Director: Nima Nourizadeh Year: 2012 This was the second film I watched in a row with a handheld camera, Blair Witch project mockumentary style. The story is ...
21 Jump Street
★★ Director: Phil Lord, Chris Miller Year: 2012 Yes, I watched this. So what? I loved the TV show and grew up with it. It obviously helped that ...
50/50
★★★★ Director: Jonathan Levine Year: 2011 I remember when this came out and didn't think much about it. But when a film gets 93% on Rotten Tomatoes and ...
Happy Feet Two
★★★ Director: George Miller Year: 2011 This was obviously with the kids. And it's great to have an excuse to watch a mind-numbing but entertaining film. There's ...
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 ...
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 ...
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
★★★ 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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
★★★ 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 ...
