4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on February 24, 2016

By definition, a revenant is someone who returns, but there is often a connotation that they are returning from the dead like a specter. The term gives major insight into Alejandro González Iñárritu’s latest undertaking with Leonardo DiCaprio. It’s a fully immersive, grimy, gory, grisly,   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on February 23, 2016

Luis Bunuel like another cinematic auteur, Ingmar Bergman, seems to often fill his films with religious imagery and themes, but whereas Bergman appears to have genuine questions about his own spirituality, Bunuel is all but content to subvert all such depictions for his own purposes. He has a wicked   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on February 23, 2016

Luis Bunuel like another cinematic auteur, Ingmar Bergman, seems to often fill his films with religious imagery and themes, but whereas Bergman appears to have genuine questions about his own spirituality, Bunuel is all but content to subvert all such depictions for his own purposes. He has a wicked   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on February 20, 2016

Recently I’ve seen a lot of films about music, musicians, and the like. There’s Llewyn Davis, who seems to have talent and yet gets little recognition for what he does. There’s the street musician in Once, who also has a lot of talent and we like to think that he...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on February 20, 2016

Recently I’ve seen a lot of films about music, musicians, and the like. There’s Llewyn Davis, who seems to have talent and yet gets little recognition for what he does. There’s the street musician in Once, who also has a lot of talent and we like to think that he...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on February 18, 2016

It’s the original Rock Hudson Doris Day Rom-Com, with the seemingly perpetual split screen, to match the party line that constantly weaves its way through the story. It’s technicolor, it has an infectious title track, and it’s absurd wackiness somehow adds up to a boy-gets-girl hap   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on February 18, 2016

It’s the original Rock Hudson Doris Day Rom-Com, with the seemingly perpetual split screen, to match the party line that constantly weaves its way through the story. It’s technicolor, it has an infectious title track, and it’s absurd wackiness somehow adds up to a boy-gets-girl hap   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on February 16, 2016

All I knew going into The Sixth Sense was that it featured Bruce Willis and there was a twist at the end. That was about it. Thus, it was an interesting opening to have our main character already be shot within the first few minutes. But it’s not much of...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on February 16, 2016

All I knew going into The Sixth Sense was that it featured Bruce Willis and there was a twist at the end. That was about it. Thus, it was an interesting opening to have our main character already be shot within the first few minutes. But it’s not much of...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on February 13, 2016

When Paul Thomas Anderson said he was making a comedy with Adam Sandler, people undoubtedly scoffed at him. I know I would have if I had known about this film back then. However, he proved that you should never question him as a director. Much like a Kubrick or a...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on February 13, 2016

When Paul Thomas Anderson said he was making a comedy with Adam Sandler, people undoubtedly scoffed at him. I know I would have if I had known of this film back then. However, he proved that you should never question him as a director. Much like a Kubrick or a...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on February 11, 2016

I’m not sure if it’s because I’ve been bred on a certain brand of war movie, but I naively went into Grand Illusion expecting a typical P.O.W. drama. In the back of my mind, I was even ready to compare this title to later works like Stalag 17 (1953) or...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on February 11, 2016

I’m not sure if it’s because I’ve been bred on a certain brand of war movie, but I naively went into Grand Illusion expecting a typical P.O.W. drama. In the back of my mind, I was even ready to compare this title to later works like Stalag 17 (1953) or...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on February 9, 2016

“Forget it Jake, it’s Chinatown” The more you watch movies like Chinatown, the more you realize how much you’re still learning. I saw it the first time and I naively thought I knew everything about it. After all, it seemed fairly cut and dry. But the beauty of this film...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on February 9, 2016

“Forget it Jake, it’s Chinatown” The more you watch movies like Chinatown, the more you realize how much you’re still learning. I saw it the first time and I naively thought I knew everything about it. After all, it seemed fairly cut and dry. But the beauty of this film...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on February 9, 2016

“Forget it Jake, it’s Chinatown” The more you watch movies like Chinatown, the more you realize how much you’re still learning. I saw it the first time and I naively thought I knew everything about it. After all, it seemed fairly cut and dry. But the beauty of this film...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on February 6, 2016

More often than not Llewyn Davis turns out to be a worthy character and I mean that in the sense that he is readily watchable. This probably isn’t the real folk scene of the 1960s, but it is the time and place seen through the Coen Brothers’ somber lens. Inspired by...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on February 6, 2016

More often than not Llewyn Davis turns out to be a worthy character and I mean that in the sense that he is readily watchable. This probably isn’t the real folk scene of the 1960s, but it is the time and place seen through the Coen Brothers’ somber lens. Inspired by...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on February 5, 2016

The Wedding of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip was a once in a lifetime experience. They’re still together to this day and yet when they got married she was not even queen yet. It’s hard to believe. It’s only fitting that a momentous occasion  like that would get a film,...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on February 5, 2016

The Wedding of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip was a once in a lifetime experience. They’re still together to this day and yet when they got married she was not even queen yet. It’s hard to believe. It’s only fitting that a momentous occasion like that would get a film,...   read more