The Apartment (23/09/12) A man tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue. I do believe this will be the end of my mediocre film streak. Well, I hope […]
All posts tagged “Movie: Drama”
100 movies: Take Shelter
Take Shelter (15/09/12) Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from himself. If you were having wicked crazy dreams of the mother of all storms, would you go and […]
100 movies: Lawless
Lawless (30/08/12) Set in Depression-era Franklin County, Virginia, a bootlegging gang is threatened by a new deputy and other authorities who want a cut of their profits. Lawless was a film I was looking forward to. I was looking forward to Lawless being that end […]
100 movies: The Help
The Help (11/08/12) An aspiring author during the civil rights movement of the 1960s decides to write a book detailing the African-American maids’ point of view on the white families for which they work, and the hardships they go through on a daily basis. Playing […]
100 movies: Miller’s Crossing
Miller’s Crossing (18/07/12) Tom Regan, an advisor to a Prohibition-era crime boss, tries to keep the peace between warring mobs but gets caught in divided loyalties. Onto my third Coen Brothers film of the year. The others being The Big Lebowski and Raising Arizona. You […]
100 movies: The Dark Knight Rises
WARNING: This is a spoiler warning! I was going to attempt writing up my thoughts on The Dark Knight Rises without plot points about the film. But that’s proved somewhat impossible. So, if you’ve not seen the film but will be at some point and […]
100 movies: We Need to Talk About Kevin
We Need to Talk About Kevin (07/07/12) Kevin’s mother struggles to love her strange child, despite the increasingly vicious things he says and does as he grows up. But Kevin is just getting started, and his final act will be beyond anything anyone imagined. If […]
100 movies: Broadcast News
Broadcast News (07/07/12) Take two rival TV reporters: one handsome, one talented, both male. Add one producer, female. Mix well and watch the sparks fly. This was a strange choice of film. I know. Not completely strange. But it’s not exactly a film that was […]
100 movies: Rebel Without a Cause
Rebel Without a Cause 22/06/12) A rebellious young man with a troubled past comes to a new town, finding friends and enemies. It’s a little bit tricky watching films from the 1950s. Times are very, very different. Language is different. Those things that were important […]