Category: DRAMA
Pieta (2012)
By: Henry J. Fromage (Four Beers) – South Korea has gotten quite the reputation as an exporter of delightful, fully little romantic comedies fit for the whole family. This summer, Pieta will roll into theaters, and right into your hearts… Record scratch Nope, this is South Korean critically acclaimed fare, and furthermore, it’s from provocateur
Shutter Island (2010)
By: Eddie Duncan (Two Beers) - In the wake of a classic turned movie’s recent premiere, The Great Gatsby for those left wondering, I thought it might be nice to take a short stroll down memory lane of one of the greatest actors of all time: Leonardo DiCaprio in ‘Shutter Island’. Another book turned movie
The Loneliest Planet (2012)
By: Henry J. Fromage (Two Beers) – If you happen to be a fan both of globetrotting and movies, you’ve probably noticed by now the lack of films that properly convey what it feels like to travel on the cheap and off the beaten path. Basically, if you aren’t Hilton rich, you’ve probably never had
Rear Window (1954)
By: B-Side (A Toast) - From the living room of an apartment building, bay windows look out onto a courtyard, a bit of street, and the corresponding windows of other apartments. Through those windows are people of all types and stripes, unaware they’re being observed. What do you see? What should you see? Rear Window is the kind of
The Chumscrubber (2005)
By: Byron Davel (A Toast) - What an interesting movie. I first watched this movie when I was about 12, down in Durban and didn’t know what on earth was happening. But second and third time round, damn was it brilliant, a movie about ‘ The Chumscrubber’ a person who helps kids and parents deal with problems
Gone with the Wind (1939)
By: Oberst Von Berauscht (Six Pack) - Arguably the most beloved movie of all time, and adjusted for inflation, still by far the most successful. Gone with the Wind tells the story of Scarlett O’Hara (Vivian Leigh), the spoiled daughter of a plantation owner, and her quest for an unhappy life by falling in love
Mosquita y Mari (2012)
By: Rob Perez (Two Beers) - So you know how it is. You hear about a film where the central characters are female. Interested. They’re both young. Still interested. Latina. Very interested. And they’re both lesbian. Very, very . . . well, you see where I’m going. What was the darling of many independent film festivals in
The Great Gatsby (2013)
By: B-Side (Three Beers) - The best thing in the world for a Baz Lurhmann movie to be is a beautiful little fool. The Aussie director’s particular brand of whizz-bang cinematic mayhem has livened up adaptations of the literary cannon before, and a camera whirring among the champagne and the CGI stars is actually not
The End (2012)
By: Henry J. Fromage (A Toast) – The last several years have seen an explosion of professional quality short films popping up on Youtube and Vimeo, some even drawing the attention of Hollywood and yielding feature-length film deals. Of the bunch that I’ve check out so far, though, none have been so consistently depressing and
Upstream Color (2013)
By: Henry J. Fromage (Two Beers) – When Shane Carruth first hit the scene with Primer, critics and movielovers didn’t know how to take it. His time travel film was difficult, convoluted, and nothing less than fascinating- a work of art that was so detailed and meticulously thought out that it was clear we were
