Certain Women – 2016

Three vignettes of life in the Midwest, Montana to be more specific. Kelly Reichardt is an indie darling when it comes to female empowerment films and this one is her finest yet. Each segment of this film focuses on a woman in the midst of some crisis. The first focuses on a Laura Wells (Laura […]

The Truman Show – 1998

The Truman show offers an interesting commentary on the nature of media. The film is a bleak representation of television and more importantly, of the viewers themselves. In the twenty years since the Truman show first came out, the obsession with reality television has consumed the American people. This film creates a world where a […]

12 Angry Men – 1957

The most powerful legal drama ever made, of that there is little argument. This film takes the murder trial of a teenage boy and turns it into a battle between twelve men over the young man’s life. The film features standout performances from Henry Fonda and Lee J. Cobb as opposing forces on the jury, […]

Diner – 1982

The acting in Diner isn’t impressive, the cast was basically a group of unknowns at the time, but their chemistry is its selling point. The film takes a look at a group of men in their early twenties who are slowly drifting apart as life pulls them in different directions. Each man has his own […]

Good Will Hunting – 1997

There are some films that define generations of fans, there are some that define the careers of the cast or crew, and there are some that aim to accomplish nothing, but still do all the same. Good Will Hunting disguises the inner turmoil of a twenty-year-old as a mathematically gifted janitor with abandonment issues. The […]

Kynodontas – 2009

Dogtooth is one of those movies that makes you stop and ask, “What the hell am I watching?” There are a lot of moments in viewing films that this is a bad question, but in the case of Dogtooth, it simply adds to the dangerous peculiarity of the film. Yorgos Lanthimos is a Greek director […]