Netflix Suggestions: Summer Movies

Hey Cinemateurs, we’re not going to have a normal post this week due to life getting in the way. But, we didn’t want to leave you without a post this week. We’ve quickly pulled a list of action movies on Netflix that we can recommend you check out before we leave blockbuster season. We’ll be […]

The Great Escape

Rich Man’s M*A*S*H, it uses the same dark-comedic tone but puts it to much greater effect ★★★★★ When you’ve been watching and discussing movies with the same people for over 7+ years you end up with a common vocabulary. Today, I get to talk to you cinemateurs about a term we use, a ‘perfect film’. […]

Frank

Rich man’s Network: I feel the underpinnings of Frank is dissatisfaction with social media. Network screams this same dissatisfaction from the rooftops. Literally. ★★★★☆ Frank is a weird movie. It stars Domhnall Gleeson as a wannabe musician named Jon who gets pulled into an avant-garde art rock band led by the titular Frank. Frank is […]

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

Poor Man’s Matchstick Men: it checks all the con-man boxes, but without much style ★★★☆☆ Last week, we talked about one of David’s great loves, the biopic. This week we wade into another of his favorite topics: the con man movie. The con man genre is full of excellent films and even better characters. Con […]

Rebuttal: The Wind Rises

Le vent se lève! . . . il faut tenter de vivre! ★★★★☆ That’s right, I’m opening this rebuttal up in French. Before my next review, I wanted to give you my perspective on The Wind Rises by Hayao Miyazaki. David and I, y’know the two guys mentioned in the tagline, will be writing rebuttals […]

The Wind Rises

Poor man’s The Good Shepherd: I somehow found this slower and less interesting than the profoundly boring fake story about how the CIA started in the US. ★★☆☆☆ Before we start on this film review, we need to have a discussion about biopics. I love biopics. If there’s a genre that has my absolute forgiveness, […]

High Noon

Poor man’s Alien. This time, when the monster shows up, it’s not as terrifying as the xenomorph ★★★☆☆ High Noon is a movie that has been on my radar for a long time. It is a 1952 classic directed by Fred Zinneman, starring Gary Cooper as Marshall Will Kane and Grace Kelly as his quaker […]

Heathers

Rich man’s Mean Girls, the parts I like, I like way more than Mean Girls. I think Heathers is gonna stick with me more. ★★★☆☆ Heathers is an eighties movie (1988 to be exact). The haircuts are eighties. The slang is eighties. All of the women wear shoulder padded pantsuits. They look like fucking linebackers. […]

All is Lost

Poor’s Mans Moon, There are more fun ways to tell a story about isolation and survival but this one is still effective ★★★☆☆ Normally when I sit down to write a movie review I focus on three main areas:, story, characters, and writing. Sometimes, if a movie is exceptional in a harder-to-notice area, I might […]

Headhunters

Poor man’s Heat: although the acting is less nuanced (excluding Al Pacino) and the writing less subtle, I personally found Headhunters more fun to watch. ★★★★☆ Headhunters is a 2011 film about one man’s journey to accept himself. Also, it’s in Norwegian… If you have anything in common with me, you’ve assumed this is a black […]