Category: BIOPICS
Heleno (2011)
By: Joel Olivo (Four Beers) - We sit (or stand vomiting profusely depending on your understanding of fly behavior.) a mere fly on the wall through the life of the world’s first soccer superstar, Heleno de Freitas. Before Pele, soccer superstars, the world bore witness to Heleno, The women wanted him, the men wanted to
42 (2013)
By :Matt Conway (Two Beers) - Jackie Robinson is a true legend. Even people who never watch baseball know of him, because his achievements went past the sport itself, he broke the racial barrier baseball had, which was a huge step towards ending the segregation in America during the 1950′s and 60′s. With such a great story, its a
Lean on Me (1989)
By: Oberst Von Berauscht (Three Beers) - East Side High School is a hotbed of drugs, gang activity and violence. Faced with a possible State takeover, the district hires Principal Joe Clark (Morgan Freeman) to clean up the school. The Administrators tell him to get test scores back on track, and gives him less than
Gangster Squad (2013)
By: The Cinephiliac (Three Beers) - Ryan Gosling, Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, and Michael Pena in a movie director by Ruben Fleischer—this is certain to be stuff of legends. I mean come on, a film by the guy who directed a comedy about surviving a zombie apocalypse featuring the aforementioned talent and then some, including Nick
Black Gold (2011)
By: Henry J. Fromage (Four Beers) - One of the principal joys of aimlessly meandering through the IMDB pages of famous actors is coming across a title wand wondering “What the hell is that?” Now that internationally financed pictures are getting more clout, this is happening more often. Foreign producers with money to blow
The Sessions (2012)
By: Mitch Hansch (Two Beers) - Previously nominated for his searing performance in Winter’s Bone, John Hawkes plays Mark O’Brien, a journalist and successful poet crippled from polio when he was only 6 that left him dependent on and living in an Iron Lung. Only The Sessions doesn’t concentrate on the anguish of his
Lincoln (2012)
By: B-Side (A Toast and a Shot) - Movies about the American Civil War tend to be, you know, war movies. There are plumes of black powder, crane-straining tableaux of the wounded, a world on fire. Movies about Abe Lincoln, too, have their baggage, the requisite stovepipe hats and stentorian recitations of the Second
Argo (2012)
By: Henry J. Fromage (Two Beers) – If one measure of a great film is its ability to help you escape reality and completely consume your attention, then Argo is a great film. I was having far from a good day when I caught Ben Affleck’s latest stellar directing effort, but for a couple
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012)
By: The Cinephiliac (Five Beers) - Genre mash ups aren’t a new invention. For as long as genres have existed so has the combination of them in film and books. However, recently audiences have been exposed to and craving more mash ups in their media. Graphic novels like Cowboys & Aliens have received such
Caligula (1979)
By: Blandsford (Five Beers) - Dear Penthouse, Recently I watched the 1979 epic produced by your founder and haver of a tan Bob Guccione. And let me tell you, I was super disappointed. Maybe I wasn’t born at the right time, or maybe I’m just too jaded to enjoy something my parents once found titillating, but I
