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What is happening recently in American Cinema and the Western? Tarantino brought out Django and The Hateful Eight, creating a glossy, stylized, vicious look at the Western, reminding us we truly do live in a better time. Both nothing speaks more to the American and human spirit than the Western, pitting man against the elements in a land that doesn't love him, and people who just don't give a damn. Then again a lot of these people can't get a damn break. Enter in visionary and hot handed director Alejandro G. Inarritu with his take on the Western, a tale about a fur trader named Hugh Glass. Needless to say, this movie is STUPID EPIC. STUPID. Now I may not be the greatest authority on movies or the snobbiest of snobs, but the opening 20 minutes to this movie might be the best opening sequence to a movie since the opening of Saving Private Ryan.  I'm not speechless very often, but this was one of those moments. You will be in sheer awe of this sequence. If not, you...

    Dating is hard enough with people and technology today, I can't even imagine what Theodore had to go through in Spike Jonze's beautifully sad love story, Her. Thedore(J. Phoenix) is a writer who has gone through a divorce. He's sad, his life seeming to be devoid of any love or connection, until he installs Samantha, an Operating System with artificial intelligence. Eventually they fall in love, they live, and you want it to work so badly. You're so happy he finds happiness, but does it last? Can they make it work? I can't say much more to spoil the movie, but what a movie.    It paints a futuristic world that seems all to real, human beings connected to the world with technology, yet growing farther and farther from each other and human interaction. People talk into their devices all the time, oblivious to the beauty of the world around them. It really begs the question for the future as he and Samantha fall in love, what is dating? What can you consider a rel...

Many times, the hype cannot match a film’s ambitions or overall product. Man of Steel is one such film. For the second year in a row, I come away disappointed by a comic film that looked spectacular in every way, just like I did with Batman last year.              Then again, Man of Steel is the superhero film that really defines this era of filmmaking. Money buys visuals, visuals make money, story is shorthanded. The visuals in this film were absolutely spectacular, but there was SO much, more than I could handle. Too much of a good thing is not a good thing, and that’s what happened here. Too much.              Granted, this is Snyder’s best film to date and the coming out party for Henry Cavill but it remains to be an all ecompassing film. There are portions where you will be wowed, that’s a guarantee. However, there will be parts where you are scratching your ...

   The Night of the Hunter is a classic for a reason. Kids my age should take note of what makes a classic classic, and why it has stood the test of time. This is unlike most of the films that come out today: Pointless and wallowing in their own mediocrity. Classic is something that others copy, others look to for guidance, one whose story and theme transcends the art form.  This is a film that has done all of the above (If you want to argue this, or debate it I should say, comment below).   The story is about a boy John and his sister Pearl. The movie opens with their father hiding 10 grand he stole, and telling the kids that no matter what, they would never tell where he hid it.  The kids promise and the dad goes off to prison. There he meets the Reverend Harry Powell, who finds out he has this money.  This now becomes his sole purpose. Find and take the money at any cost. It's a wife, 2 kids and her family. Who can really stop him?    The sto...

   The Imposter is bar none, the best documentary I have ever seen. Period. Then again, I haven't seen a ton of documentaries.  This is one of the most intense, unreal things I have ever seen on the screen, that's even talking about the characterization in Twilight.  THIS is an idea too original for anyone in Hollywood to think of.  Well, now maybe yes. 20 years ago, they could have done it.  But see this film.    The story is about a boy, Nicholas who is reported missing from his home in Texas.  Then 3 years later, he is reportedly found in Spain. His sister flies out to pick him up, and she takes him home. But it's not him.  It's not Nicholas.  It's a man impersonating their son.  Why?  Watch the damn movie.  I don't give spoilers.  Why even bother seeing it then if I tell you in the eloquence of whence I write what happens to our fair players?    Firstly, the pacing of this movie is sensational. ...

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   Solely, I remember this movie came out when it was my birthday, and it had one of the sweetest trailers I had ever seen.  Did it disappoint?  Let's see!    Now be warned, I HAVE NOT READ THE GRAPHIC NOVEL, so my opinions expressed heresay may not gel with yours in the least.  If so, educate me on the graphic novel because I have heard it is a landmark achievement.    The story in extreme briefness is about the cold war in the 1980s and how we are on the verge of war.  A group of old superheroes overcome the law and their past to unite and find the person who is trying to kill them all.  Interesting?  Very.   That being said, this movie is correlative to that of a Cloud Atlas.  There are so many different storylines going on,  yet they start at end with all the characters coming together.   Let me give credit where credit is due.  Visually as in every Zack Snyder film, the visuals are crisp and pr...