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Birdman

Adult Orientation Amy Ryan Art film Avante-Garde Cinema Birdman Drama Edward Norton Emma Stone Michael Keaton Moody Character Study Movie Review Naomi Watts Weirdness Worst Films Zach Galifianakis

My Favorite Scary Movies

Audition Creature Feature Horror Invasion of the Body Snatchers Jacob's Ladder Netflix Suggestions Rosemary's Baby Stanley Kubrick The Cell The Exorcist The Fly The Shining The Silence of the Lambs The Thing Trance-Out Violent Thrillers Weekend Viewing Debauchery Weirdness

Fury

Brad Pitt Food for Thought Fury Life Lessons Logan Lerman Michael Pena Military Drama Movie Review Shia LaBeouf War Winter Despair WWII

Ten Netflix Films in September 2014

Avante-Garde Cinema Blow Out Brian DePalma Essential Films John Travolta Minority Report Movie Review Netflix Suggestions Race Against the Clock Thriller Steven Spielberg Thrillers Tom Cruise

Recent Videos

Crazy Rich Asians

BlacKkKlansman

Mission: Impossible — Fallout

The Ballad of Narayama (1983, Japan)

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again

Recent Comments

rudolfmenon Says,
Totally agree. And we left the cinema really disappointed.

rudolfmenon Says,
Really? Wow, then im going to watch this! I could watch District 9 ...

soulreaver99 Says,
The trailer to the movie itself was half-assed. Totally not surprising that ...

hashbrowny Says,
Great family movie...I disagree with your view. Maybe you've lost your ...

calipoppy Says,
Man of Steel is a Hunk of Kryptonite.I enjoyed the movie.

My All-Time Favorite Films

Walkabout (1971, Director Nicolas Roeg)
Spring Summer Fall Winter… and Spring (2003, South Korea, Kim Ki-Duk)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Stanley Kubrick)
GoodFellas (1990, Martin Scorsese)
All That Jazz (1979, Bob Fosse)
Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles)
No Country for Old Men (2007, Joel Coen)
Aguirre the Wrath of God (1972, Germany, Werner Herzog)
The Wizard of Oz (1939, Victor Fleming)
Schindler’s List (1993, Steven Spielberg)
Barry Lyndon (1975, Stanley Kubrick)
The Tree of Life (2011, Terrence Malick)
Vertigo (1959, Alfred Hitchcock)
Mulholland Dr. (2001, David Lynch)
3-Iron (2005, South Korea, Kim Ki-Duk)
Umberto D. (1952, Italy, Vittorio de Sica)
Raging Bull (1980, Martin Scorsese)
E.T. (1982, Steven Spielberg)
The Shining (1980, Stanley Kubrick)
Pulp Fiction (1994, Quentin Tarantino)
Chinatown (1974, Roman Polanski)
The Social Network (2010, David Fincher)
The Band Wagon (1953, Vincente Minnelli)
La La Land (2016, Damien Chazelle)
Taxi Driver (1976, Martin Scorsese)
Dark City (1998, Alex Proyas)
Singin’ in the Rain (1952, Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly)
The Age of Innocence (1993, Martin Scorsese)
Persona (1966, Sweden, Ingmar Bergman)
Sherlock Jr. (1924, Buster Keaton)
Dr. Strangelove (1964, Stanley Kubrick)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994, Frank Darabont)
Apocalypse Now (1979, Francis Ford Coppola)
Make Way for Tomorrow (1937, Leo McCarey)
Woman in the Dunes (1964, Japan, Hiroshi Teshigahara)
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971, Robert Altman)
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946, Frank Capra)
Come and See (1985, Russia, Elem Klimov)
The Godfather (1972, Francis Ford Coppola)
Testament (1983, Lynne Littman)
Paths of Glory (1957, Stanley Kubrick)
Viridiana (1961, Spain, Luis Bunuel)
Some Like It Hot (1959, Billy Wilder)
Leaving Las Vegas (1995, Mike Figgis)
Straw Dogs (1971, Sam Peckinpah)
The 400 Blows (1959, France, Francois Truffaut)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967, Arthur Penn)
Crumb (1995, Terry Zwigoff)
Fargo (1996, Joel Coen)
Malcolm X (1992, Spike Lee)
The Lady Eve (1941, Preston Sturges)
Safe (1995, Todd Haynes)
Red (1994, France, Kryzysztof Kieslowski)
The Exorcist (1973, William Friedkin)
The Bicycle Thief (1948, Italy, Vittorio de Sica)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991, Jonathan Demme)
Do the Right Thing (1989, Spike Lee)
Downfall (2005, Germany, Oliver Hirshbiegel)
JFK (1991, Oliver Stone)
Heat (1995, Michael Mann)
Gravity (2013, Alfonso Cuaron)
Map of the Human Heart (1993, Vincent Ward)
The Thin Red Line (1998, Terrence Malick)
The Third Man (1949, Sir Carol Reed)
Blue Velvet (1986, David Lynch)
Trouble in Paradise (1932, Ernst Lubitsch)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975, Milos Forman)
Little Big Man (1970, Arthur Penn)
The Fugitive (1993, Andrew Davis)
Midnight Cowboy (1969, John Schlesinger)
The Dark Knight (2008, Christopher Nolan)
Poetry (2011, South Korea, Lee Chang-dong
The Right Stuff (1983, Philip Kaufman)
Annihilation (2018, Alex Garland)
Tropic Thunder (2008, Ben Stiller)
eXistenZ (1999, David Cronenberg)
Days of Heaven (1978, Terrence Malick)
Magnolia (1999, Paul Thomas Anderson)
Detroit (2017, Kathryn Bigelow)
The Truman Show (1998, Peter Weir)
Minority Report (2002, Steven Spielberg)
Modern Times (1936, Charlie Chaplin)
Damage (1992, Louis Malle)
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005, Tommy Lee Jones)
Memento (2001, Christopher Nolan)
King Kong (1933, Merian C. Cooper)
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (2000, Taiwan, Ang Lee)
The Piano (1993, Jane Campion)
Requiem for a Dream (2000, Darren Aronofsky)
Spirited Away (2002, Japan, Hayao Miyazaki)
Sideways (2004, Alexander Payne)
The Remains of the Day (1993, James Ivory)
Jaws (1975, Steven Spielberg)
Tootsie (1982, Sydney Pollack)
Half Nelson (2006, Ryan Fleck & Anna Boden)
A Woman Under the Influence (1974, John Cassavetes)
Monster (2003, Patty Jenkins)
The Wages of Fear (1955, France, Henri-Georges Clouzot)
L.A. Confidential (1997, Curtis Hanson)
Take This Waltz (2012, Sarah Polley) Also: Boyhood (2014), Straight Time (1978), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), Amadeus (1984), Full Metal Jacket (1987), Unforgiven (1992), Breaking the Waves (1996 Denmark), Life of Pi (2012), Ex Machina (2015), The Florida Project (2017), Airplane! (1980), Raise the Red Lantern (1992 China), Carrie (1976), Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), The Squid and the Whale (2005), The Departed (2006), House of Games (1987), Moneyball (2011), Rashomon (1950 Japan), The Bow (2005 South Korea), The Master (2012), Nymphomaniac (2014 Denmark), Network (1976), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), The Falcon and the Snowman (1985), Sully (2016), A History of Violence (2005), The Verdict (1982), Babe: Pig in the City (1998), Orlando (1993), Cloud Atlas (2012), Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead (2007), Born on the 4th of July (1989), The Fly (1986), The Ice Storm (1997), Saving Private Ryan (1998), Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018), The Widow of St. Pierre (2001 France), Out of Africa (1985), Atlantic City (1981), Titanic (1997), Blade Runner (1982), King of the Hill (1993), Metropolis (1927 Germany), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), The Hudsucker Proxy (1994), Belle de Jour (1968 Spain), Mad Max Fury Road (2015), 127 Hours (2010), Small Change (1976 France), Nightcrawler (2014), Before Sunrise (1995), Marriage is a Crazy Thing (2002 South Korea), Departures (2009 Japan), The Cell (2000), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Carnal Knowledge (1971), Duck Soup (1933), Mr. Death The Rise & Fall of Fred Leuchter Jr. (2000), The War of the Roses (1989), Inglorious Basterds (2009), Monsieur Hire (1990 France), The World’s End (2013), That Obscure Object of Desire (1977 France), Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), Election (1999), The Empire Strikes Back (1980), The Red Shoes (1948), Joe vs the Volcano (1990), Jackie Brown (1997), The Big Lebowski (1998), Far From Heaven (2002), The Hunt (2013 Denmark), City Lights (1931), The Hurt Locker (2009), An Inconvenient Truth (2006), The Elephant Man (1980), Run Lola Run (1999 Germany), The Wild Bunch (1969), Burn After Reading (2008), 12 Years a Slave (2013), Sullivan’s Travels (1941), Lenny (1974), The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), BlacKkKlansman (2018), Perfume The Story of a Murderer (2006), Cape Fear (1991), Rain Man (1988), Platoon (1986), The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989), The Insider (1999), True Love (1989), Battle of the Sexes (2017), Manchester by the Sea (2016), Slumdog Millionaire (2008), Alien (1979), The Naked Gun (1988), Star Wars (1977), A.I. (2001), Casino (1995), Get Me Roger Stone (2018), The Isle (2003 South Korea), A Fish Called Wanda (1988), Glory (1989), The French Connection (1971), The Cranes are Flying (1957 Russia), Cast Away (2000), A Walk in the Clouds (1995), Witness (1985), Stroszek (1978 Germany), Die Hard (1988), Groundhog Day (1993), Le Samourai (1967 France), Star 80 (1983), Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971), The Ballad of Narayama (1983 Japan), Gerry (2003), Gone Girl (2014), There’s Something About Mary (1998), Idiocracy (2006), The Wrestler (2008), Ikiru (1952 Japan), Searching for Sugarman (2012), Audition (1999 Japan), sex lies & videotape (1989), Paris Texas (1984), Oldboy (2005 South Korea), Back to the Future (1985), The Player (1992), The Deer Hunter (1978), Kiss Me Deadly (1955), Rear Window (1954), Moonstruck (1987), Fly Away Home (1996), The Sixth Sense (1999), My Left Foot (1989), Sorcerer (1977), The Game (1997), L’Avventura (1960 Italy), Mary Poppins (1964), A Simple Plan (1998), Ed Wood (1994), Superman (1978), The Doors (1991), 12 Monkeys (1995), The Last Picture Show (1971), Don’t Look Now (1973), United 93 (2006), Pinocchio (1941), The Lady from Shanghai (1948), Shame (2011), Amores Perros (2001 Mexico), Short Cuts (1993), Down & Out in Beverly Hills (1986), Casino Royale (2006), Paradise Lost Child Murders at Robin Hood Hill (1996), The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928 France), Risky Business (1983), The Descendants (2011), Reversal of Fortune (1990), Amour (2012 Austria), The Conversation (1974), Angel Heart (1987), The Last Detail (1973), Brazil (1985), Kramer vs Kramer (1979), Wall Street (1987), Toy Story (1995), Dumbo (1941), Psycho (1960), Cries and Whispers (1973 Sweden), Grand Canyon (1991), Breaking Away (1979), Wag the Dog (1997), Black Hawk Down (2001), Casualties of War (1989), Gandhi (1982), Eraserhead (1977), Dances with Wolves (1990), Sunset Boulevard (1950), Rampart (2012), Aliens (1986), Paranormal Activity (2009), Time (2006 South Korea), Top Secret (1984), The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957), The Prize Winner of Defiance Ohio (2005), Toy Story 3 (2010), Shakespeare in Love (1998), Terms of Endearment (1983), Punch-Drunk Love (2002), The Road Home (2001 China), The Thing (1982), The Matrix (1999), Enter the Void (2009 France), The Lobster (2016), Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015), The Decalogue (1988 Poland), Mean Streets (1973), The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972 France), The Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), Bridge of Spies (2015), Source Code (2011), The Greatest Showman (2017), Funny Face (1957), The Founder (2016), Paranoid Park (2008), The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), His Girl Friday (1940), North by Northwest (1959), Vagabond (1986 France), Spartacus (1960), Bride of Frankenstein (1935), The Deep End (2001), Raising Arizona (1987), Hereditary (2018), School of Rock (2003), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), Arrival (2016), Time After Time (1979), Legends of the Fall (1994), Mumford (1999), Auto Focus (2002), The Graduate (1967), Das Boot (1982 Germany). Note: Woody Allen and Roman Polanski films were removed. They meant a lot to me once. But I came to see them as shameful, alas, I can no longer endorse their films. The one exception is “Chinatown,” for I cannot punish Robert Towne for penning a best-ever screenplay and it’s apex Jack Nicholson.

Recent Comments

rudolfmenon Says,
Totally agree. And we left the cinema really disappointed.

rudolfmenon Says,
Really? Wow, then im going to watch this! I could watch District 9 ...

soulreaver99 Says,
The trailer to the movie itself was half-assed. Totally not surprising that ...

hashbrowny Says,
Great family movie...I disagree with your view. Maybe you've lost your ...

calipoppy Says,
Man of Steel is a Hunk of Kryptonite.I enjoyed the movie.