Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood (2019)
Quentin Tarantino’s ninth film (if you count the who volumes of Kill Bill as one entity), Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood (called OUATIH from here on out), is both different than anything he’s done before...
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The Revenant (2015)
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s follow-up to his Oscar-winning film Birdman sees him go for a Western adventure of the most potent variety in The Revenant, a grueling tale of bloody revenge set in the wilderness of (presumably) the...
Titanic (1997)
For me, James Cameron’s Titanic has always been a tale of two halves. The first half — the setup — is schmaltzy and not particularly well written. The second — the disaster movie — is balls-out,...
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
Martin Scorsese (Shutter Island, Shine A Light) directs the Terence Winter (Get Rich or Die Tryin’, “Boardwalk Empire”) adaptation of the best-selling memoir from multimillionaire stock broker Jordan Belfort, turning it into the closest thing...
Gangs of New York (2002)
Although Scorsese’s epic is full of symbolism and artistic flourishes which give the overall production an artificial feel, I suspect his vision of the America of yesteryear is perhaps a more accurate representation of...
Catch Me If You Can (2002)
I suppose it’s a long time coming for Steven Spielberg to take a break from his string of very serious films (Amistad, Saving Private Ryan, A.I., and Minority Report) to do something fun, and if there’s...
The Quick and the Dead (1995)
A lady gunslinger (Stone) enters a town in the grip of a powerful and merciless killer (Hackman). While there, it’s decided for several people in the town to have a “drawing” competition, where two of...
The Beach (2000)
After his monumental breakthrough in Titanic and The Man in the Iron Mask, Leonardo DiCaprio’s first film after taking about a year off from acting doesn’t quite prove worth the wait. This one puts him back in...
The Man in the Iron Mask (1998)
Leonardo DiCaprio plays dual roles as the King of France and his twin brother Phillippe, who was cast in an iron mask to conceal his identity and thrown in prison to spend the rest...
Romeo + Juliet (1996)
You know the story — sort of. Two warring families are vying for control of the city called Verona Beach. The families are the Montagues and Capulets, who bitterly despise each other, resulting in...