Now this one was a doozy. I feel like I have truly entered the territory of the film buff with Stanley Kubrick's 1968 sci-fi thriller, and it is a territory in which I am not at home. As I was pummeled with lengthy exposition from the right, celestial time travel from the left, and philosophical perplexities from practically everywhere, I found myself befuddled and thrilled, but mostly befuddled. First off, I feel mildly embarrassed. The opening sequence of 2001 has been re

This film is one of the main reasons I started this blog, as I have lied about seeing it SEVERAL times. It took a surprising amount of courage to finally sit down and watch it: I had a vague sense that Saving Private Ryan was going to emotionally wreck me, and it did. Just not in the way I expected. Set on the war-torn frontlines of 1944 France, the film follows the perilous journey of a small American platoon ordered to locate and retrieve Private James Ryan, the last survi

From the dark, dingy streets of the ’90s American crime thriller, I have diverted to the ditzy, floral planes of the '90s rom-com, Four Weddings and a Funeral . I sank into my sofa expecting to feel warm and fuzzy after this one, but when I stood up, I felt oddly torn. The first of many films written by Richard Curtis, Four Weddings and a Funeral  made me nostalgic for a decade I wasn’t even born in. The story follows (unsurprisingly) the events promised by its title, alongsi