Welcome to my site where I discuss films that I have recently watched and subsequently reviewed. Feel free to send me a film recommendation and I will try and watch it!
I recently got a hold of quite a few Gus Van Sant films, who is probably most notable for directing the 1997 film "Good Will Hunting," and I will try to watch and review about four more films of his in the next few days, so be ready for that. Van Sant's second feature film, the 1989 "Drugstore Cowboy," based...
Winner of two awards in the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, the science fiction -drama "Primer" deals with two engineers who inadvertently discover a machine that is capable of time travel. In his filmmaking debut, Shane Carruth wrote, directed, edited, produced, composed the score, and starred in "Primer," and reportedly made the film for around...
Starring Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, and Forrest Whitaker, "Arrival" takes place at the beginning of a possible alien invasion, and follows Adams character, a linguistics expert, who tries to communicate to the extraterrestrials about why they have come to Earth. Eric Heisserer previously wrote the screenplays to several horror and sci-fi films, but...
Stephen Chow, who is known as the "King of Comedy" in China, co-wrote, produced, directed, and starred in the 2004 comedy/martial arts film "Kung Fu Hustle." Not being a huge fan of Kung Fu films, and not knowing who Stephen Chow is, I was not sure how to feel going into this film, or what to expect. I was impressed...
In Daniel Day-Lewis' second collaboration with Paul Thomas Anderson, and his self proclaimed final role before retirement, "Phantom Thread" follows a 1950s British dressmaker, and his attempt at a relationship with a waitress he meets, played by Vicky Krieps. Going into this film I wasn't extremely enthralled in the idea of watching a two hour film...
"Crawl" came out today and is the newest film from Alexandre Aja, who is known for making rather violent horror films such as "High Tension" and "Mirrors", as well as directing some remakes of cult classic horror films, notably, "The Hills Have Eyes" and "Piranha." I was somewhat curious about the way Aja would approach a film that isn't...