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Continue reading →: The Dean’s Report: Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974)From the desk of The Dean of Cinema: Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore is a bold, honest look at liberty and discovering your identity after years of having it defined for you. It doesn’t pull any punches and keeps you glued to the screen throughout.
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Continue reading →: The Dean’s Report: Dead Poets SocietyFrom the desk of The Dean of Cinema: What I love most about the film is how subdued Robin Williams is as Mr. Keating. There are glimpses of the mania that he was famous for, but even those moments seem more grounded than ever when performed here.
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Continue reading →: The Dean’s Report: Rashomon (1950)The husband, the wife… or the bandit? Four people recount different versions of the story of a man’s murder and the rape of his wife. Written by Dean Zarbaugh II Akira Kurosawa is one of my top 5 favorite filmmakers of all time alongside Steven Spielberg, Werner Herzog and Martin…
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Continue reading →: The Dean’s Report: Field of DreamsAll his life, Ray Kinsella was searching for his dreams. Then one day, his dreams came looking for him. Ray Kinsella is an Iowa farmer who hears a mysterious voice telling him to turn his cornfield into a baseball diamond. He does, but the voice’s directions don’t stop – even…
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Continue reading →: The Dean’s Report: Mrs. DoubtfireChris Columbus, fresh off a trio of successes, Adventures in Babysitting, Home Alone, and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, teams up with Robin Williams for one of the funniest movies ever made, and an all-time classic.
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Continue reading →: The Dean’s Report: Hot Fuzz (2007)Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg turn in one of the sharpest scripts ever written. Every single setup has a payoff and both are done to maximum effect. Hot Fuzz is a movie I can rewatch endlessly and still laugh every single time.
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Continue reading →: Now Showing: Bad Boys II (2003)If you can’t stand the heat, get out of Miami. Detectives Marcus Burnett and Mike Lowrey of the Miami Narcotics Task Force are tasked with stopping the flow of the drug Ecstasy into Miami. They track the drugs to the whacked-out Cuban drug lord Johnny Tapia, who is also involved…
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Continue reading →: Now Showing: Bad BoysMichael Bay brings his talents to South Beach. From the opening sequence and that iconic shot of the plane flying over the Miami billboard, you know you’re in for a couple of hours of action/comedy thrills.
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Continue reading →: Now Showing: 3:10 To Yuma (1957)The original story from Elmore Leonard is adapted here by Halsted Welles and expands on Leonard’s original story in many ways, which helps make it more digestible for movie audiences. I enjoy a lot of Leonard’s stories, and I’m especially fond of FX’s adaptation of “Fire in the Hole” into…
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Continue reading →: Now Showing: 28 Days Later (2002)Danny Boyle does an amazing job behind the camera ratcheting up the tension with every scene, barely giving the characters or the audience time to catch their breath. He captures some memorable performances from the entire cast and masterfully draws you into this post apocalyptic world that they’ve created.
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Continue reading →: Now Showing: Nightcrawler (2014)Jake Gylenhaal gives a downright creepy and off-putting performance as Louis Bloom, a man who will stop at nothing to get the story, even if it means actively participating in, and manipulating it for his own selfish means. He is genuinely unsettling every time he’s on camera, getting more and…
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Continue reading →: Now Showing: In the Mood For LoveFeel the heat, keep the feeling burning, let the sensation explode. Two neighbors form a strong bond after both suspect extramarital activities of their spouses. However, they agree to keep their bond platonic so as not to commit similar wrongs. Written by Dean Zarbaugh II Sorry that I haven’t been…
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