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Filmage

Filmage

★★★★ Director: Deedle Lacour, Matt Riggle Year: 2013 I absolutely love the Descendents. And I knew the relationship with All but never knew the full story. And it's great hearing ...

Million Dollar Arm

Million Dollar Arm

★★★ Director: Craig Gillespie Year: 2014 I'm a sucker for sports films. They're quite entertaining especially when it's from a time when I was a huge fan. And this story ...

Burt’s Buzz

Burt’s Buzz

★★★ Director: Jody Shapiro Year: 2013 This was on sale on iTunes so I figured, why not. Didn't really know much about Burt's Bees. I don't even use ...

Life Itself

Life Itself

★★★★★ Director: Steve James Year: 2014 I think we all take for granted the impact and role models that Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel had in film making, ...

Finding Vivian Maier

Finding Vivian Maier

★★★★★ Director: John Maloof, Charlie Siskel Year: 2013 What an absolutely amazing story. The documentarian finds all of these amazing negatives at a storage locker auction. Posts it to ...

Senna

Senna

★★★★ Director: Asif Kapadia Year: 2010 Been wanting to watch this forever but never had the time on Netflix, etc. But I'm glad I did. Not only is ...

Lone Survivor

Lone Survivor

★★★★★ Director: Peter Berg Year: 2013 I remember seeing endless trailors and behind the scenes interviews about this film and had no desire to watch it. But I ...

The Monuments Men

The Monuments Men

★★ Director: George Clooney Year: 2014 This film was inspired by the documentary The Rape of Europa, which was 20x better, as they always are. Anyway, it's entertaining but ...

Cutie and the Boxer

Cutie and the Boxer

★★★★★ Director: Zachary Heinzerling Year: 2013 It's easy to understand why this film won at Sundance and just how incredible the story and editing of the film is. ...

Rush

Rush

★★★★★ Director: Ron Howard Year: 2013 I don't understand how this film DIDN'T get an Oscar nomination! I think it was brilliant. Not only in regards to film ...

Captain Phillips

Captain Phillips

★★★★★ Director: Paul Greengrass Year: 2013 I think I'm surprising myself by giving this film 5-stars. It's such a mainstream film. Even in the way the formulaic narrative ...

Saving Mr. Banks

Saving Mr. Banks

★★★★ Director: John Lee Hancock Year: 2013 What's with me and Tom Hanks films? And what's with him with two films in release at the same time. This one ...

Dallas Buyers Club

Dallas Buyers Club

★★★★ Director: Jean-Marc Vallée Year: 2013 An incredible story that's unfamiliar to most people, including myself. It was amazing to see the AIDS epidemic shown in macho Texas ...

The Wolf of Wall Street

The Wolf of Wall Str

★★★ Director: Martin Scorsese Year: 2013 Yet another film I had high hopes for. Not only do I love Scorsese films but I love films about New York ...

My Week with Marilyn

My Week with Marilyn

★★★ Director: Simon Curtis Year: 2011 This has been on my to watch list forever. The best thing this film did was demonstrate just how much of an ...

The Grandmaster

The Grandmaster

★★★ Director: Wong Kar Wai Year: 2013 As most people know, Wong Kar Wai is one of my favorite directors. So why is it I prefer all ...

12 Years a Slave

12 Years a Slave

★★★★ Director: Steve McQueen Year: 2013 This is one of the most original stories I had read/scene and it's even more surprising (although not so much) that it's ...