2000s
2007’s The Lookout boasts a talented cast, and manages to be fun while maintaining suspense – it’s a hidden gem that’s worth discovering.
We look back to the 2006 Academy Awards when Brokeback Mountain, a groundbreaking film about two homosexual cowboys, was snubbed for Best Picture in potentially the most controversial decision in Oscar history.
From 2008, French film A Christmas Tale offers a different type of holiday film – one that is melancholy, depressing, and yet also intriguing.
Surprisingly, Saw VI seems to have learned from previous entries; with a plot of its own, it manages to be the stand out of the franchise.
Premiering back in 2004, Saw is a landmark horror film, launching a multitude of sequels in addition to an entire sub-genre of horror.
With Saw V, the Saw franchise firmly waved goodbye to logic, with plot contrivances that make the film closer to sci-fi than horror.
Saw IV goes even bigger than its predecessors, but with the loss of the franchise’s main writer, the story loses much of its oomph.
Despite its great practical effects, the once compelling twists have now become overdone in Saw III and are not as shocking as they once were.
Saw II might not be as strong or as fresh as its predecessor, but it has enough about it that works, making it a guilty pleasure watch.
It’s not one of the horror greats that many people make it out to be, but Saw is crafty and ambitious enough to warrant a horror buff’s time.
In this installment of Take Two, Robb Sheppard reconsiders David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive after a less-than-satisfying first viewing.
The Silent Hill movie was a fun movie with its own story, while still holding onto a level of faithfulness from the video games.
In our latest entry of The Nominated Film You May Have Missed series, we discuss the 2005 political drama Good Night, and Good Luck.
Enid and Rebecca’s ironic appreciation of pop culture in Terry Zwigoff’s 2001 cult film hides an insightful look at young adulthood.
Alex Arabian discusses Donnie Darko, a masterpiece that remains one of the most relevant, urgent and timely films of the last 50 years.