Mildred Pierce
Mildred Pierce is a 1945 film adaptation of James M. Cain’s novel of the same name, directed by Micheal Curtiz and starring Joan Crawford. Those are some pretty big names, […]
Category Archives: Films
Black Swan
Lately I’ve been pushing my own film watching boundaries to a little closer to their limits. I’ve been trying to watch more and more films that I was initially afraid […]
Night of the Living Dead
Hello! Guest reviewer here. So I had to watch Night of the Living Dead for my film class, and I was a bit skittish. I’m not a fan of the horror […]
Vertigo
I think I literally just watched this whole film without breathing once. Obviously false, but the point is that Hitchcock’s Vertigo is very suspenseful. It would be, being a Hitchcock film, but […]
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
You know those movies where people come out of it saying: “I laughed, I cried…” etc. etc… Well this is one of those. I laughed quite a lot, and I […]
Argo
It’s always interesting, as one who loves movies, to see movies about making other movies. With Ben Affleck’s Argo, a movie based on a true story of pretending to make a “fake […]
The Master
The Master is possibly a veiled history of Scientology, but I’m not going to go into that. I know I’m not qualified. Scientology or no Scientology, it’s definitely about a […]
The Third Man
The Third Man’s opening sets the story up perfectly. A short speech narrated by an unnamed racketeer (the director, Carol Reed) tells us everything we need to know about post-war […]
The Soul of the Plot 