The Top 25 Films of 2018
Much like the past few years, 2018 felt far longer than a single year filled yet again with extreme socio-political absurdity, strife, and turmoil but then all came to a seemingly abrupt and unceremonious end.…
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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.…
Film Review: Silence
It’s easy to be a saint in Paradise – Capt. Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks), Star Trek: Deep Space Nine The opening to Martin Scorsese’s Mean Streets begins with a black screen as we hear the director’s…
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…
Top 10 Documentaries of 2014
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…
Scenery Theory: On Depiction and Intent
Clint Eastwood’s latest war drama American Sniper is breaking box-office records in this early new year, nominated for several oscars including best picture and actor, and perhaps inevitably has started to stir controversy splitting audiences and critics…
Selma Review
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…
Nightcrawler Review
Making it in America: for the ‘if it bleeds; it leads’ crowd, AKA the current American media cycles. A satirical indictment of the media and its outlets has already had a go-around with Gone Girl earlier in…