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Prisoners

Brilliant, shocking, gripping, mind-blowing, freaky, nerve-wracking, intense, and redemptive are all excellent reasons why you should see this movie. At a whopping two hours and fifteen minute run time, I was completely entranced in the story from start to finish, never actually realizing how long I had been sitting there. From the opening scene, I […]

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Ain’t Them Bodies Saints

A poem of the heart and landscape of the Texas Hill Country, Ain’t Them Bodies Saints is every bit as beautiful as its title implies. Playing off the natural sounds of the winds through the prairies, the film takes a simplistic look at outlaw Bob Muldoon (played brilliantly by Casey Affleck) and his sacrificial love […]

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Fruitvale Station

As an almost perfectly true story of Oscar Grant III (Michael B. Jordan),  Fruitvale Station follows him in a short review of his recent past with the law, his future goals as a new family man, and the devastating tragedy of the last day of his life. Surrounding the celebration of New Year’s Eve of […]

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