I think I might’ve mentioned before but it always bares repeating that films help to serve as our time machines, giving the ability to journey into the past to give us long lost perspectives, ideas and emotions from ages ago. But rare is the film…

With all the attention on all things movies tonight, I thought it would be fun to do my own roll call for the movies of the recent past year (Don’t know what to call them, The Jeff’s doesn’t really do the trick). My winners in BOLD, enjoy…

With all the things concerning fictional narrative films out of the way for 2014, lets get to the non-fictional ones as there were several to take in, discover and enlighten. Not unlike the fictional narratives many of the best Documentaries focused on the Now, what are…

We move on from Part 1 to Kubrick, Military Takeovers, Alienation, and Abstraction. A rather crowded line-up to be sure. Lets get started with empathizing with pedophilia! I apologize in advance. 50). Lolita Expresses Sexual Taboos With Unabashed Candor And Humor “How Did They Ever Make A…

Thursday was the leading characters, today it’s the supporting players that amplify the onscreen story by giving the main characters something to play off of. Engaging the audience a few more layers by revealing more dimensions and shadings of the leading characters, and thusly the…

An outstanding year for film usually means an outstanding one for performances as well. First up are the lead roles that acted as our surrogates through many diverse and engaging narratives. From recovering depressives to battling mid-life crisis’s to tracking high-risk terror suspects to psychotics…

2014 has come and gone, another year in books, so as is movie reviewer tradition it is time to come up with a listing of the very best films that I saw in the past year. The end tally range from moody period-pieces to contemporary…

There is the scene in the trailer for Bennet Miller’s unbearably tense olympic wrestling docu-drama where multi-millionaire John du Pont (Steve Carell) walks into the training room with his sponsored wrestlers training together, and in his right hand there is a gun. The shot doesn’t…

Now, here’s the way to make a truly resonating Bio-pic, the type of ‘Prestige Drama’ that gets it.  At the risk of going into spoiler territory I want to examine a scene late in Ava DuVernay’s topical and powerful Civil Rights Era Period Film Selma, which…

The very best movies of this recent past year concerned themselves with depicting life in the present; living in the here and now, whenever that “here and now” was. From the 60’s Poland to the 2000’s Austin, Texas. Enter auteur Filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson who…