How to Get Ahead in Advertising

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

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 the Yemen

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...