The Beautiful Sadness of Leaving Las Vegas

The masterpiece work of director, Mike Figgis, stars Nicholas Cage in an award winning performance as the most sympathetic drunk the silver screen has ever seen. Throw in the vulnerable beauty of the supporting actress Elizabeth Shue and you have what is easily one of the most striking films of th

The Aviator; Martin Scorsese’s Masterpiece

Howard Hughes is one of the most iconic characters of the 20th century and the director Martin Scorsese also made himself into an icon when he produced this masterpiece of his film career ‘The Aviator’.

Leonardo DiCaprio’s Champion Role; ‘What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?’

Ever wonder how great actors get their start? It happens when they deliver the most stunning performances of their career and then every director in the world starts asking for them after that.

The Thin Red Line, A Most Carefully Cut Film

Of all films in history, none have been so carefully labored over as Terrence Mallick’s The Thin Red Line. Nominated for seven Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography and Best in Film Editing, it won the top prize at the 1999 Berlin Inte

The Breakfast Club

This is the definitive teen movie of all time. The Breakfast Club is a classic film which follows five high school teenagers on a Saturday morning detention stint which soon causes them to realize that they have more in common than first meets the eye.

Pulp Fiction Wins Best of the Worst

Whose up for the most shameless, apathetic degradation that only true art can offer to a hungry public? Pulp Fiction wins the best of the worst film award for a production that single-handedly raised John Travolta’s rotting career from the dead and made him back into one of the biggest movie sta

American Beauty Boasts the Most Beautiful Thing Ever Seen

While asking the question, “What’s the most beautiful thing you’ve ever seen”, American Beauty actually won a total of five Academy Awards including Best Picture for its incredibly unique answer to this most important question.

The Woodsman, Kevin Bacon

Society often hides from the ugliest issues because we wish they would just go away. For this we pretend they don’t exist rather than looking them in the face and searching for a solution.

Liar-Liar is Jim Carey at His Best

Carey was nominated for a Golden Globe Award in 1998 for Best Performance but it seems the award should have been Personal Best and Most Hilarious. For those two awards, he should have won. Although it starts a bit slow, fifteen minutes into Liar-Liar, the laughs eventually start coming and Jim

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