Drama
OSCAR WATCH • The Imitation Game: A Masterpiece of Subversion.
The story of Alan Turing, the brilliant yet troubled mathematician who led the cryptographic team...
OSCAR WATCH • Whiplash: The Ugly Truth of “Great” Art.
Serious drama of a New York music school student drummer seeking greatness and his verbally...
OSCAR WATCH • The Theory of Everything: Unintentional Tragedy of a Crippled Atheist Mind.
The story of brilliant Cambridge cosmologist Stephen Hawking and his relationship with his wife...
Little Boy: Americana Film about Family, Fatherhood, Faith & Fighting Bullies
A little boy in small town America during WWII seeks to do whatever it takes...
OSCAR WATCH • Boyhood: Plotless Boring Rambling Nihilism.
Slice-of-life drama of a young boy’s experiences from age 5 to age 18. Ever since...
OSCAR WATCH • Birdman: Profound Search for Transcendence, Finds None.
A washed up Hollywood action film star on the verge of opening a Broadway play...
Unbroken: Broken Storytelling. Read the Book. See the Movie To End All Wars.
The true story of Louis Zamperini, a steel-willed Italian American who survived atrocities of WWII,...
Borgen: A Rare Honest Atheist Self-Reflection in a Godless Danish TV Show
I got caught up in the Danish TV Series Borgen (available on Netflix). It’s...
To Christian Pro-Life Moviegoers: Put Your $ Where Your Mouth Is
I hear people all the time telling me how they wish more storytellers like me...
Parkland: The Passion of the Christ Kennedy – Boring Idol Worship Movie
True Crime drama about what happened the day JFK was shot based on Vincent Bugliosi’s...
House of Cards: Shakespearean Tragedy About the Political Pursuit of Power – of Democrats, that is
Netflix Political Thriller series. An amazingly written and directed series starring Kevin Spacey as Francis...
American Hustle: Love Brings Truth in a World of Lies
Caper Movie based on a true story from 1978. A couple of con artists, Irving...
The Counselor: Nietzsche at the Movies, or Shakespeare without Redemption
Crime thriller. After watching The Counselor, you get the feeling that you need to take...
Mud: Amazing Movie of Male Liberation
Southern Coming of Age Romance. Young Ellis and his friend Neckbone are two young boys...
Jobs: Visionary as Obsessive Narcissistic A$$h*!e Changes the World
A biopic about Apple. What? You thought it was about Steve Jobs? Well, it is...
Quartet: Growing Old Sucks $#!%!
Is all we have to look forward to in our twilight years, the hope for...
Silver Linings Playbook
Everybody’s mentally ill! A dysfunctional romantic comedy about Pat (Bradley Cooper in his usual flexible...
The Life of Pi
Visually stunning, spiritually confusing. The Life of Pi is the story of Pi, a young...
Hatfields & McCoys (2012)
Boy, was I angry that I was skipped over for the new release of this...
Lincoln
Oscar winning performance in a dreadfully B-O-R-I-N-G Movie. Daniel-Day is superb. Warm, human, weak, but...
Machine Gun Preacher
Relativity Media Directed by Marc Forster Written by Jason Keller From the opening scene of...
The Tree of Life
Arthouse family drama. Terrence Malik’s new cinematic exploration of the meaning of life and suffering...
Welcome to the Rileys
A picture of grace. Doug (James Gandolfini) and Lois (Melissa Leo) have been married 30...
The King’s Speech
A British period drama about a commoner speech therapist who helped King George VI overcome...
127 Hours
Survival tale based on a true story of Aaron Ralston, a mountaineer whose arm was...
The Company Men
Drama about three executives at different levels and ages who lose their jobs in the...
Secretariat
This is a total feel good movie of the year, sure to be a strong...
The Social Network
A drama about the invention of Facebook and its founders, written by Aaron Sorkin and...
The Town
Crime Drama. The story of a bank robber in Charlestown NY who discovers love and...
Creation
The dramatic story of the origin of Charles Darwin’s book On the Origin of the...
The Lovely Bones
A murder thriller about the search for a killer in the 1970s, as told through...
Up in the Air
A tale of cynicism and love in conflict, of reality and escape, isolation and human...