Nov 17 Love0 What’s Eating Gilbert Grape: Raw Realism By Carrie Stemke Classic Reviews What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? is a moving, human film. Director Lasse Hallström weaves a story that captures both the viewer’s attention…Read More
Nov 15 Love0 The Jerk: This, and That By Matthew Pizana Classic Reviews Born from a line out of Steve Martin’s stand up act, The Jerk is a rags to riches to rags…Read More
Nov 12 Love0 The Sting: Camera, Character and a Great Screenplay By Bhargav Prasad Classic Reviews Long before Guy Ritchie’s Cinema celebrated being on the other side of the law, George Roy Hill with screenwriter David…Read More
Nov 08 Love0 In the Heat of the Night: They Call Him Mr. Tibbs By Matthew Pizana Classic Reviews The same year that the first black man was sworn in as a Supreme Court Justice of the United States,…Read More
Nov 08 Love0 How John Hughes and Ferris Bueller Taught Us All to Relax By Carrie Stemke Classic Reviews Some movies are great because they represent an ideal world for us: a world in which everybody likes us, where…Read More
Nov 02 Love0 Pulp Fiction: Screenplay Structure that Still Impresses By Carrie Stemke Classic Reviews It’s the film where we all learned what they called a Quarter Pounder with cheese in Paris: Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp…Read More
Nov 01 Love0 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: The American Way By Matthew Pizana Classic Reviews The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, the third of three films in the “Dollars Trilogy” made by Sergio Leone,…Read More
Oct 31 Love0 Frankenstein: Of Monsters and Humans By Bhargav Prasad Classic Reviews Let us start with a fun fact. Mary Shelly, the writer of "Frankenstein" was only 19 when she wrote the…Read More
Oct 28 Love0 The Killing: Deceptively Simple Crime By Matthew Pizana Classic Reviews Using the classic crime film noir pictures of the 1940’s as his guide, Stanley Kubrick set out to create his…Read More
Oct 28 Love0 Youth of the Beast: Unflinching and Unwavering By Matthew Pizana Classic Reviews Seijun Suzuki had already made several dozen films in the Japanese studio system by the time he began work on…Read More