Month: September 2019

The Social Network (2010) Director: David Fincher ★★★★★ The Social Network tells an admittedly biased story about the founding of “TheFacebook,” everyone’s least favorite social networking website. It details the rise of the robotic and antisocial Mark Zuckerberg as he founds (or perhaps steals) the idea for a college networking…

The Smiling Lieutenant (1931) Director: Ernst Lubitsch ★★★★☆ The “Lubitsch Touch” strikes again! The Smiling Lieutenant is a delightful musical-comedy, it is both light-hearted and sentimental as well as clever and at times even absurd, but its sunny disposition makes for a lovely film. With the story borrowed from an Oscar…

The King’s Speech (2010) Director: Tom Hooper “For the second time in the lives of most of us we are at war…” ★★★★★ The King’s Speech was initially envisioned by writer David Seidler as a stage production. He later converted the idea into a script for a film, but was…

Inception (2010) Director: Christopher Nolan “Once An Idea Has Taken Hold Of The Brain, It’s Almost Impossible To Eradicate.” ★★★★★ Mining the depths of the conscious, subconscious, and even the unconscious (a la Freud and Jung and others), Christopher Nolan’s Inception delivers a high-octane thriller while still maintaining his unpredictable…