Posted by moviegeek916 on August 2, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Savages (2012) – So Oliver Stone is known primarily for political films like JFK, Nixon, and W. Or films with a message like Platoon or Wall Street. But sometimes Stone just goes wild and crazy and that’s when he gives us movies like U-Turn or, more to the point, Natural Born Killers. Natural Born Killers was … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on September 22, 2011 · Leave a Comment
The Town (2010) — While not on the same level as his debut Gone Baby Gone, The Town proves that Ben Affleck really seems to know what he’s doing as a director. He got massively overexposed in the late 90s/early 2000s and did just about anything for a paycheck (including a movie called Paycheck) but … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on September 7, 2011 · Leave a Comment
New York, I Love You (2009) — A sort-of sequel to Paris, je t’aime, this is several short films edited together. It’s not as good as its Parisian counterpart, but that one had the Coen brothers, Alfonso Cuaron, Gus Van Sant, Christopher Doyle, Wes Craven, Walter Salles, Tom Tykwer, and Alexander Payne. New York, I … Continue reading →
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Persistence of Vision 