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 play.…

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 him a quadriplegic, Philippe hires a young man, Driss,…

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 and the moral ideals and complications of the…

The Film Canon: City Lights (1931)

Charlie Chaplin has a plethora as films that are the worth the viewing time. From Gold Rush to Modern Times to his controversial The Great Dictator, but it’s City Lights which Chaplin wrote, directed and starred in that inspired the…

Underrated Films Part Two

12. A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (2006) Unique in style, tone and storytelling, this film is about the importance of family and the marks that they leave with you for the rest of your life. Physically you may distance…

Films More People Should See – Part One

10. The Fall (2006) This film is one of the most criminally underrated movies. It’s a showcase of what a cinematic masterpiece looks like in terms of visuals, acting, musical score, and storytelling. With this film all of the pieces…

Books to Movies: Which of Your Favorite YA Reads Might/Will Hit the Big Screen?

  Hollywood is gobbling up movie rights to almost every best-selling Young Adult novel to hit book stands in the past few years. Can you blame them? Every studio is looking for the new Harry Potter, Twilight and now Hunger…