Tokyo Sonata

This Japanese import is an engaging and effective look at the struggle of feeling trapped by a countries traditions and cultures, that minus an odd 20 minutes near the end, is pretty solid all around. The Sasaki’s are an ordinary middle class family living a rather normal existence in modern Japan. Composed of mom, dad, […]

The Decade’s Best – Monsters, Inc. (2001)

Pixar’s post Toy Story era began with a bang as this hilarious and adorable tale about the world of monsters is full of heart, thrills, and plenty of laughs

New Scott Pilgrim Vlogs

Enjoy, this flick can’t get here soon enough! Bonus Blog – Watching the blogs – Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World from Scott Pilgrim The Movie on Vimeo.  

Moon

Duncan Jones makes his feature debut with this fantastic sci-fi film that digs into the psyche of the mind and what it means to be human and it is all fueled by a marvelous performance by Sam Rockwell. Helium-3 has saved the earth’s energy problems. A world on the verge of destroying itself through pollution […]

The Decade’s Best – Minority Report (2002)

It’s almost hard to believe the first decade of this new millennium is almost over, but that just means we get to start debating what were the best films of this young century and why we think so. Over the next six months we will have a series of essays of my reflection and discussion […]

The Decade’s Best – The Good Shepherd (2006)

Robert DeNiro’s epic origin story of the CIA is a superb spy film even if it isn’t what most people would picture a spy film is nowadays, with its feet firmly planted in truth and reality

09 So Far, Has it Been Average?

So a few days ago I wrote an article summing up the year so far and how I thought we were having a pretty solid year being put together. Well, we might have some standouts, but I did a little math I got what the average score was for movies I’ve seen so far this […]

The Decade’s Best – Children of Men (2006)

Alfonso Cuarón’s sci-fi, dystopia, adventure masterpiece is an under seen gem that you should discover

Tulpan

Sergei Dvortsevoy makes his narrative feature debut out of Kazakhstan is an interesting look into a sheep herder’s life and the battle between the young and old school’s of thought in society in the country. The film opens with the attempted arrangement of Asa, a young soldier looking for a start to his new life, […]

Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs

The third film in the trilogy is superior to the awful second, but doesn’t have the heart and all around quality of the first film in the series; and it utilizes the use of 3-D fairly well in a couple of key action scenes. Diego, Manny, and Sid are all living together in there own […]