The Wind Rises Review
The Manhattan Project’s lead physicist John Robert Oppenheimer was asked a few years before his death about the true effectiveness of halting the spread of Atomic weapons in the cold war era. His answer: “…It’s…
My 25 Favorite Movie Moments of All-time
To celebrate my recent birthday and Oscar Sunday my own way I decided to rundown the scenes, images, shots, characters and movies that have stayed with me the most in my film oriented life. These…
The Lego Movie Review
This one goes out to anyone who had quite a bit of their childhoods spent deciphering those Ikea-esque instruction manuals… “Any kind of product placement is distracting, just kills any type of creativity ruins any…
The Top 50 Movie Moments That Defined the 1950′s: Top Ten
Before getting into the top ten here are the pervious installments: Part 4, Part 3, Part 2 and Part 1. So here we are, the very top cinematic moments that define a golden nostalgic era. It’s…
Top Ten Movie Moments of 2013
Having just counted down my favorite movies of 2013 I realized the year had it’s share of great movie moments that ranged from spiritual reinforcement to oppressive guilt. There were many scenes and sequences that…
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The Top 50 Movie Moments That Defined the 1950′s: Part 4
Here are the links to Part 3, Part 2, and Part 1 This one has only nine entries, given how powerful each of these…
The Top 50 Movie Moments That Defined the 1950′s: Part 3
For some looks back here’s the preceding part 2, and…
The Top 50 Movie Moments That Defined The 1950′s: Part 2
Welcome back to the nostalgic cinematic way-back machine, you can…
The Top 50 Movie Moments That Defined the 1950′s: Part 1
The 50′s, in a nutshell, were about the overall renewed…
Movie Reviews
Inside Llewyn Davis Review
For Atmosphere: Fare Thee Well This one goes out to the has-beens, also-rans and outright failures. Subject material that couldn’t be more…
12 Years a Slave Review
Gone with the Wind, several other films and media whitewashed it in…
Her Review
(Arcade Fire’s Supersymmetry for Atmosphere) Astronaut Dave Bowman: Open the pod…
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Top Ten Movies of 2013
As I say farewell to the films of 2013 I find there is no one word to describe the past year in…
The 10…12 Greatest Performance-Driven Directors of the 21st Century
Distill the one thing needed to propel a movie down…
10 Great Post Cold War Spy Movies
In light of the calls for treasonous combative action and…
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Blue is the Warmest Color Review
Finding and discovering first love is a many splendid thing… until it isn’t At that impressionable age during the final years in high school, some young teens will began to realize all too well that nothing is going to be certain or given from here…
Upstream Color Review
As limitless as imagination, as unique as a human mind and as fragile as existence… A young man buys blue flowers and takes grubs from the soil in the pots; a young woman works in an office as visual artist; the man kidnaps the girl…
Fruitvale Station Review
This is a tough one, there is a reason why I’ve waited so long to get to this one. This has been on my ‘to do’ list for some time because it’s taken me a while to find the proper tact on how to handle…
The Wolf of Wall Street Review
Years ago in middle school my mathematics teacher did a whole section on Economics and Finance, a field trip was dedicated to going to the Chicago Board of Trade (The mid-west’s Wall Street you could say), I had to do a full report on my…
Short Term 12 (I got nothing for rhymes here, in Honor of Marcus’ Rap)
Everybody has had that sickening penetrating feeling at least once in his or her lives, that one of utter loneliness. That you are all alone in the world, with no one wanting to help or even listen while you’re crying for attention. Thus, we become…
Ed Harris 5X5, His Best and Worst Roles
Most movie-goers would probably equate the name Ed Harris to anger and rage, defining his many villainous turns in blockbusters. However, his career is much more than what he is well-known and infamous for. Whenever a role calls for an intense, steely gazed and completely…
Scenery Theory: “Tunnel Vision” in ‘To The Wonder’
Who better a subject to do a scene, theme and cinematography analysis series on than a visual poem by the enigmatic auteur Terrence Malick? To The Wonder, the latest from the unique visionary director, centers on French foreigner Marina (Olga Kurylenko) and traveling American Neil’s (Ben Affleck)…
Gritty Period Piece T.V Round Up: Mad Men S6 and The Americans S1 Review(s)
Hope you all didn’t get temporal whip-lash from going back and forth from 1981 to 1968 this T.V season… Open either in new tab: Tusk-Fleetwood Mac for 1980′s atmosphere, Judy Collins – Both Sides Now for 1960′s Atmosphere Earlier this year former CIA operative Joe Weisberg premiered a…
Scenery Theory: ‘Vertigo’ and ‘The Great Gatsby’ Parallels
(Consider this a revamped revision of a previous article, in light of the Great Gatsby adaption earlier this year and a revamped site…) Welcome to a new feature article series I’m going to try out, on the Great Cinematic Achievements, where I take a look back at the…
10 Movies That Should’ve Been About Different Characters
So you’re just done watching an ok-alright movie, you don’t regret seeing it it was fine. Right afterwards you find yourself saying to yourself “I really only wanted to know more about this character, why wasn’t the story about her/him?” Filmmakers sometimes just miss the…