Directed by Peter Yates Bullitt is one of those movies that I can't really tell if it's good or not.  Recently I've watched a lot of movies from the late 60s and 70s, and I think they're just about all really good.  In my mind, the 1970s are the pinnacle of American films, but that's … Continue reading Bullitt (1968)

Directed by Sydney Lumet I found Network to be more disturbing than either Rosemary's Baby or The Deer Hunter.  If you haven't seen those two films, one involves a woman forced to give birth to the devil, and the other involves a bunch of people shooting themselves. I think there is an idea that both of those films are separated … Continue reading Network (1976)

Directed by Joe Cornish Attack the Block moves quickly.  It has the feel of an Edgar Wright movie, with fast action, quick dialogue and little time to waste.  The story takes place in South London over the course of one night.  A young gang, led by Moses (John Boyega), intimidates a woman walking on her … Continue reading Attack the Block (2011)

Directed by Roman Polanski After watching this film with my roommates, I remarked how this didn't scare me like modern horror films.  I think we are desensitized to movie violence and jump-scares in a way that this film feels incredibly tame.  To me, movies have so much more to react against today than they did … Continue reading Rosemary’s Baby (1968)

Directed by George Lucas *the more I think about it, the more this might be one of my favorite movies. American Graffiti is a high school story set in the small town of Merced, California on one night in the early 1960s.  It follows a group of friends as they cruise the town, race cars, … Continue reading American Graffiti (1973)

Directed by Jerry Schatzberg Bobby's (Al Pacino) and Helen's (Kity Winn) life is not pretty, and yet there's something in me that really wanted to buy in to the fragile life they tried to make together.  I found Helen to be adorable and Bobby to be incredibly charismatic.  This film is about devastating drugs, but … Continue reading The Panic in Needle Park (1971)

Directed by Clint Eastwood In Unforgiven, Clint Eastwood plays an old cowboy, Will, trying to forget his old ways, and yet he falls right back into them.  Will lives with his two children in the middle of nowhere.  It's a quiet life, and we learn that he hasn't fired a gun in 11 years.  Before he … Continue reading Unforgiven (1992)

Written by Michael R. Perry (112 pages) The Voices is a dark comedy about a mentally ill man whose cat encourages him to kill people.  That's not the entire story, of course, because he also has a dog who tries to tell him not to kill people. Jerry gets himself in trouble when he accidentally … Continue reading The Voices (2014) [Script Only]

Directed by Michael Cimino The Deer Hunter is about three friends and how their lives are changed by the Vietnam War, and yet we mostly see the characters before and after the war.  The film spends most of its time building up the image of pre-war Michael (Robert De Niro) Nicky (Christopher Walken) and Steven … Continue reading The Deer Hunter (1978)

Written by David Ayer My first thoughts while reading Training Day were that this story took itself way too seriously.  It feels, at times, like a parody of a cop/drug dealer war movie.  While the film came out in 2001, this script was written, to my knowledge, around 1995, at a time when I'm guessing there … Continue reading Training Day (2001) [Script Only]