Seen This Week: I’m Not There (2007) , Friends With Benefits (2011), A Cat in Paris (2010), Rise of the Guardians (2012), Indie Game: The Movie (2012), The Deep Blue Sea (2012) This week I seemed to …
Movie Pick of The Week: Away We Go (2009)
I’m cheating a bit this week. The premise of this column was for me to write about/recommend a film that I had seen in the past week that I had never seen before. Instead, this week I’m go…
Allyson’s Movie Review: Silver Linings Playbook
As a movie goer it’s never good to hear “Oscar buzz” in regards to a film you’re about to see. Those two words ultimately build an instantaneous expectation. Despite the fact that in recent years Osca…
Movie Pick of The Week: First Position (2011)
Amongst all of the Oscar bait films, film festival darlings, and foreign favorites, it’s easy to miss some gems of movies, to not know exactly what film is worth seeing other than the obvious. Sometim…
The Film Canon: Rashomon (1950)
This film was like s stage production. One act, followed by act two, all wrapped up in the climatic third and final act. It reminded of a modern film Closer, which was in fact a movie deriving by a pl…
11 Awesome Feel Good Movies
11. The Intouchables (2012) Often times, stories about the power of friendship are overwrought, yet this film keeps the perfect balance of the sweet and realistic. After a paragliding accident leaves …
The Film Canon: Bicycle Thieves (1948)
Charged with the neorealism style of filmmaking, portraying a cultural shift in Rome post war, this film doesn’t coddle it’s audience but instead showcases a realistic and raw portrayal of the economy…