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Point Blank (John Boorman, 1967) This cult classic staring Lee Marvin as Walker a man seeking for revenge against the organization that owes him money and that has a scheme that Walker will try to erase. The film is the produce of Marvin and director John Boorman agreeing on the poor quality o read more

Gravity (Alfonso Cuaron, 2013) The film is set during a fictitious Shuttle Explorer's STS-157 mission. Dr. Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) is a medical engineer on her first space shuttle mission aboard the Space Shuttle Explorer. She is accompanied by veteran astronaut Matt Kowalski (George Clooney) read more

The Lost Weekend (Billy Wilder, 1945) The film recounts the life of an alcoholic New York writer, Don Birnam (Ray Milland), over the last half of a six-year period, and in particular on a weekend alcoholic binge. Preparing for a weekend away, Don and his brother Wick (Philip Terry), Don canR read more

Hoop Dreams (Steve James, 1994) Following the High School path of two young African-American Basketball prospects from the surroundings of Chicago we discover more than just their dedication to their sport.   Arthur Agee and William Gates were fourteen years old when a part time recruit read more

Let It Ride (Jacques Russo, 2006) The story of the life of professional snowboarder Craig Kelly. His rise, his self recluse life from the spotlights and his tragic death in January 20th 2003. Mostly told with head interviews of his friends, and himself, his career as a professional snowboar read more

Last year when I made my resolutions for 2013 I pretty much made a list of films that were films I wanted to watch in priority and some blindspot directors. Just look at my original post here. During the year, I modified those goals and I got circling around the list because I thought it was alrea read more

Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach, 2012) A story that follows a New York woman (Greta Gerwig) (who doesn't really have an apartment), apprentices for a dance company (though she's not really a dancer), and throws herself headlong into her dreams, even as their possible reality dwindles. Written by di read more

*Note: This is pretty much the post I did back more or less one year ago. Titles visited are marked.*  For those who have been here a while you sure all know that I’ve been obsessively rambling about a particular list of films I’m targeting to complete. Since this list evolves fro read more

The Bling Ring (Sofia Coppola, 2013) Based on true events that occurred in California, many homes of stars were perpetrated by a group of young adults that were stealing personal effects, clothes, shoes, jewelries, watches, etc. Staring Israel Broussard, Katie Chang, Taissa Farmiga, Claire J read more

Before Midnight (Richard Linklater, 2013) Nine years after the conclusion of Before Sunset, Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Céline (Julie Delpy) are a couple and parents to twin girls conceived when they got together for the second time. Jesse is also struggling to maintain his relationship with his teen read more

Don Jon (Joseph Gordon-Levitt, 2013) Jon Martello (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is a modern day Don Juan, with a short list of things he cares about: "my body, my pad, my ride, my family, my church, my boys, my girls, my porn". Although he has an active sex life with women he meets at nightclubs, he loo read more

American Hustle (David O. Russell, 2013) With his more recent successes, David O. Russell has had a hype over everyone of his last films like The Fighter, Silver Linings Playbook, and lately American Hustle. While not being great films, they are quite enjoyable and present a solid cast. Now read more

Shoah (Claude Lanzmann, 1985) This 1985 French documentary about the Holocaust has a tremendous lenght of more than nine hours long. Spanned on many years, its director Claude Lanzmann interviewed refugees, people of Poland, ex-Nazis, Jews, and many notable actors of the worst extermination of hu read more

My Top 10 Films of 2012 With a year of delay and so many films still to catch up, here’s my first gist at my Top 10 films of 2012. 1. Moonrise Kingdom 2. Argo 3. Django Unchained 4. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 5. Magic Mike 6. Silver Linings Playbook 7. Bones Brigade : An Auto read more

1. The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick) 2. A Separation (Asghar Farhadi) 3. Shame (Steve McQueen) 4. The Muppets (James Bobin)5. The Ides of March (George Clooney) 6. Super 8 (J.J. Abrams) 7. The Artist (Michel Hazanavicius) 8. The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn (Steven Spielberg) 9. read more

River of No Return (Otto Preminger, 1954) After doing time in jail for murdering a man in defence of another one, Matt Carkner (Robert Mitchum) takes his son Mark (Tommy Rettig) and wants to live with him in the country of hunting, fishing , and cultivating. The woman, Kay Weston (Marilyn Monroe) read more

A Christmas Story (Bob Clark, 1983) Ralphie has to convince his parents, his teacher, and Santa that a Red Ryder B.B. gun really is the perfect gift for the 1940s. Of course when I grew up I used to shoot with my family’s B.B. gun in the backyard of my grandparents country house. My bro read more

National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (Jeremiah Chechik, 1989) Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase) is an upper middle class father of two teenagers Audrey (Juliette Lewis) and Russ (John Galecki) and he wants to throw a classic Holiday just like when he was 10 years old  back in 1959 with his read more

Home Alone (Chris Columbus, 1990) Kevin McCallister (Macauley Culkin) is an eight-year-old boy that was left alone in his house when his family flies to Paris for their Christmas vacation. In the meantime, the wet bandits, Harry (Joe Pesci) and Marv (Daniel Stern), have planned to rob KevinR read more

Elf (Jon Favreau, 2003) The story is about one of Santa's elves who learns of his true identity as a human and goes to New York City to meet his biological father, spreading Christmas cheer in a world of cynics as he goes. Continuing on the contemporary resentment of most adults about Chris read more