Forgotten Classics
Reviews of films that are the best of all time. These films are ones that we suggest you see before you expire.
Artificial Intelligence
David is 11 years old. He weighs 60 pounds. He is 4 feet, 6 inches tall. He has brown hair. His love is real. But he is not.
May 31st, 2011
The Fountain
Therefore, the Lord God banished Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden and placed a flaming sword to protect the tree of life. - Genesis 3:24
May 27th, 2011
The Mission
One man sought redemption, the other sought parity for the weak, powerless. Together they found themselves working for the Lord against those who were called to represent Him - the Catholic Church.
May 27th, 2011
The Phantom of the Opera
If you draw back in fear from this film, you will surely regret it.
May 27th, 2011
Fiddler on the Roof
The 1971 film adaptation of the classic musical Fiddler on the Roof is not only one of the best musicals of all time; it is also one of the best movies ever made.
May 27th, 2011
Full Metal Jacket
"Goodbye My Sweetheart, Hello Vietnam" This refrain from Dave Dudley's country ditty, an integral melody in the soundtrack of the classic "Full Metal Jacket" regarding a more patriotic approach to the Vietnam predicament, is etched in my subconscious as I reconsider Stanley Kubrick's grim satirical
May 27th, 2011
Being John Malkovich
All Things Malkovich And the film works. I know it sounds crazy, but that is essentially why this film is so alluring. An entire film built around seeing the world through the eyes of one of America's great current character actors - John Malkovich - and it works due to the outstanding story / scree
May 27th, 2011
Donnie Darko
Looking to the Future can be Hazardous to your Health Or maybe I could be wrong. That's what the coming of age / sci-fi film "Donnie Darko" does to me - every time I see it. By the time it is over, I don't know whether I'm coming or going - more questions than answers - and then I get it. And then I
May 27th, 2011
Gladiator
Ridley Scott employed the perfect balance of narrative, cinematic imagery and adventure to build the timeless tale of a once great empire beginning its fall into the moral decay that was Rome.
May 27th, 2011
Being There
Naivety and Innocence are Comfortable Collaborators in this humorous farce, Peter Sellers' second to his last movie, before his death in 1980, may also be his second best. "Being There," directed by Hal Ashby, is a humorous farce that marries the innocence of an illegitimate child; sheltered from the
May 27th, 2011
The Whole Wide World
The Story of the Best Pulp Fiction Writer in "The Whole Wide World" was a Whale of a Tale Pulp Fiction Writer Robert Ervin Howard, who in life was successful in the most difficult of economic times and in death celebrated for his effusive talent of "spinning" the most powerful of "yarns," is the sub
May 27th, 2011
To Kill a Mockingbird
I always wanted to know an Atticus Finch, and yet I never quite met him. I never found him in any of my coaches, my teachers, my friends, the fathers of my friends.
May 27th, 2011
The Lost Boys
Not just another teen angst meets brood vampire movie, "The Lost Boys" has always been special to me.
May 27th, 2011
Wyatt Earp
"But Now he's (Wyatt) Going to be a Marshal and an Outlaw. Best of Both Worlds, Son." These words were spoken by a tubercular Doc Holliday, played by a gaunt 145 pound Dennis Quaid, to Warren Earp, played by a young Jim Caviezel, in the junior classic "Wyatt Earp," which sums up the life of a comple
May 26th, 2011