The Best Years of Our Lives
I definitely underestimated just how good The Best Years of Our Lives was going to be. While, at three hours, it is on the long side, it has enough genuine […]
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Trumbo
Trumbo is a movie that seems tailor made for the Academy. It’s a bunch of famous actors playing real life people from segment of Hollywood history. It manages to be […]
Veronika Voss
Rainer Werner Fassbinder is a director I have read quite a bit about, but haven’t actually seen anything he’s done until now. Sometimes I think, like Bunuel, this ends up […]
New York, New York
New York, New York is sort of an odd film out in Scorsese’s filmography, coming in between his two greatest films: Taxi Driver and Raging Bull. Critics don’t like it […]
The Godfather
The Godfather is the iconic mafia film. It brings you into the Corlone family so perfectly that even if you don’t feel like you are a member about halfway through […]
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 