Blue Valentine

Blue Valentine

This film made some headlines over how the MPAA gave this film an NC-17 rating for some of the sexual content in the film (which was later successfully overturned to an R).  I won’t delve too much into this issue, since at the end of the day, it has little to do with the film…

Shutter Island

Shutter Island

I have to say that there were a few moments in Shutter Island in which I was feeling a bit confused.  It was not until the end of the film when I was able to piece everything together. If anything, this film proves that Martin Scorsese had the power to direct anything he wanted after…

Synecdoche, New York

Synecdoche, New York

Charlie Kaufman has never been known for easily coherent plots and his directorial debut is a doozy. In a nutshell the film is about a theatre director (played by Phillip Seymour Hoffman), suffering from a deteriorating condition, who spends many years creating a play on his life, which in turn effects the reality of his…