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…
Tag Archives: Foreign Film
The Top 25 Films of the 21st Century (2001-present)
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…
The CUAH Media Awards For the Movies of 2016
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.…
Top Ten Documentaries of 2015
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…
The Top 25 Best Movies of 2015
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…
Film Review: The Assassin
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…
Best of 2015, Thus Far…
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…
Two Days, One Night Review
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…
Young and Beautiful Review
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…
Ida Review
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…