Gregory's Girl

Very few films in recent history can claim to be as touching or truthful as Gregory's Girl (1980) in regards to adolescent struggles. While "honest" portrayal of teenage life has been upon the minds of modern film makers, very few get's as close as this over 30 year old film.  The story simply follows Gregory a boy turning into a man and his shy but tenacious pursuit of Dorothy, a soccer savant.

The Last Detail

Sporting some of the best facial hair and performance we have seen from Jack Nicholson is in the film “The Last Detail” (1973), An On the Road type travel story (including a revelatory brothel scene), we are introduce to Buddusky and Mulhall. Two navy lifers who have to escort Meadows a recently convicted man to his prison.  Although Meadows is only eighteen, so  they decide to give him a life changing experience while learning new things about their selves.

The Verdict

 The Verdict  a 1982 court room drama written by David Mamet and masterfully executed by Director Sidney Lumet and world renowned and revered actor Paul Newman  manages not only to be a successful courtroom drama, but a haunting character study; While additionally it manages to expel the inherent and systematic  racism, sexism, and prejudice that is ubiquitous within our society. The plot whilst not ground breaking is a solid set up for tense and character driven drama, Frank Galvin a once respected lawyer has free fallen into alcoholism and a state of complete isolation after a messy divorce and a jury tampering case that heavily involved him. He decides to take a simple settlement case from his long time friend Morrissey, however after he visits his client in the hospital who is now brain dead from a botched pregnancy gone wrong,  he decides to take matters in his alcoholic trembling hands.

Blood Simple

Blood Simple, the Coen brothers first foray into their surrealistic and black comedy laden feature film universe comes together as a rousing success. Blood Simple follows the very staples of the genre they have patented which includes heavy doses of dark comedy, mistaken identity, and deliciously ironic endings. The story follows Julian a small town bar owner and his maniac selfish pursuits of murdering his wife Abby and her lover Ray (coincidentally a bar tender at Julian’s establishment). However things go awry when the hit men Visser decides to murder Julian after deceiving him into thinking he had committed the murders. As simple as this would sound it isn’t as the title would aptly indicate.