I was originally planning to write this blog post about Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard, which is probably the best film I’ve seen in the past few weeks. However, a friend of mine, who sometimes likes[…]

    Martin Scorsese is widely considered one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, and rightly so. He has one of the best catalogues of films including Raging Bull, The Departed, Shutter Island, Casino,[…]

I used to be a Paul Thomas Anderson (PTA) hater. The first movie of his I watched was Boogie Nights, and I thought it was pretty good. Then,  I watched The Master and Magnolia. Now, I HATED magnolia.[…]

I’ve seen about a million interviews with directors on YouTube, and one of the most common questions they are asked is, ” What is the movie that made you want to make movies?” If asked[…]

La La Land is the second studio film from Director Damien Chazelle, and is my fourth favorite movie of all time, for now at least. If you want to see my the other top three[…]

The first time I ever saw a Coen brothers movie I was about ten years old. My dad had been raving for months and months about a movie called Raising Arizona. Throughout my childhood, my dad[…]

When I took a look at my Comm 150 syllabus, I saw that eventually we would be watching Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing, and I was not excited. I first watched this film over[…]

When people consider the “greatest bands” or the “greatest movies” of all time, the majority of them are english-speaking works. I can’t help but thinking that without the ability to understand other languages, we are[…]

That’s right. I said it. This is the greatest teen movie of all time. While Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is sensational, and The Breakfast Club is nostalgic, Superbad‘s ability to combine incredible humor with a touching[…]

The Graduate was originally a novella written by Charles Webb in 1963 before Mike Nichols made it into the hit 1967 film. The story follows Ben, a bright, young college graduate who returns home from[…]