Rebecca – 1940

Winner of Best Picture almost 80 years ago, this Hitchcock film is one of his best and is arguably the one that gained him international recognition. The film follows a young woman (Joan Fontaine) who meets and marries Maxim de Winter (Laurence Olivier), a rich widower who is seeking companionship following the recent death of […]

The Villainess – 2017

South Korea has turned out a lot of great action films, most recently a revenge thriller called The Villainess. The film follows a pregnant widow who, after taking out a building full of criminals, is recruited into a secret agency of assassins. The film makes a lot of turns and finds her being hunted by […]

Lady Macbeth – 2016

There is something interesting about sociopaths. I can’t say that they are compelling or entertaining, but there is something curious about them. Lady Macbeth follows a repressed wife who begins a torrid affair that ultimately turns to murder when it is discovered. Florence Pugh plays the adulterous wife who finds herself struggling with her murderous […]

The Departed – 2006

Martin Scorsese has worked in the film industry for the last fifty years, and has made some of the most iconic films in American cinema. One of his most famous films is The Departed, which features an all-star cast and one of the most intensely thrilling plots in the history of crime. The film focuses […]

A Most Wanted Man – 2014

Gone too soon is a phrase that is used a lot to describe good actors who have passed away, I’ll use it here to describe Phillip Seymour Hoffman. Hoffman’s last starring role is as Gunther Bachmann, a German Intelligence Agent using a political refugee to catch a terrorism financier. The film works well to showcase […]

Wind River – 2017

A well-crafted thriller centered on the death of a young Native American girl who is found frozen in the Wyoming mountains. The film follows an experienced hunter (Jeremy Renner) who is recruited to help a green FBI Agent (Elizabeth Olsen) find her killer. The film is a character study more than it is a mystery […]