The Top 25 Films of 2017
From depths of the seemingly bottomless pit of absurdity, insanity, and strife that was 2017 came forth madness, hardship, struggle, social upheavals, and triumphs. In other words, it was quite a year, to put it…
From depths of the seemingly bottomless pit of absurdity, insanity, and strife that was 2017 came forth madness, hardship, struggle, social upheavals, and triumphs. In other words, it was quite a year, to put it…
With a New York Times article last month detailing their staff’s picks for the 25 best films of this century thus far, many others online have felt the need to return the favor and list their…
Once again that time has come to evaluate the roster of movies from the last calendar year in the only way we know how to pit them against each other in an arbitrary race for simple trophies.…
With the best in narrative films of 2015 being spoken earlier its now time for the documentary format to have their day in the sun. Just as with the Narrative films the documentaries that shined…
After getting a head-start on movies that may well be on my 2016 best of list at this year’s Sundance, and much thought and contemplation putting a closing all-encompassing closing thought on the recently departed…
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…
Having been radio silent for a long hiatus, as I gave myself a sort-of movie break and I have to pay those bills somehow, I figured I would make a list of the best of…
Every writer from Shakespeare to Mamet will give you the same kind of gist: “Keep It Simple Stupid”. The Dardenne Brothers, Jean-Pierre and Luc, prove this time and again in their filmmaking and emphatically with…
For those of you who thought Nymphomaniac was not sexually liberal enough. Leave it to the French to make a story of an underage prostitute tasteful and endearing. Meet Isabelle, a precocious, spoiled, detached, rebellious and…
Leave it to Kieślowski’s homeland of Poland to produce yet another beautiful work of inspiration and poignancy. I love it when a movie completely and utterly wins me over and never lessens its hold, it’s what I…