FauxNixon

Conspiracy is so accurate and realistic, forcing the viewer to see by proxy a real meeting held by Nazi Germany’s administrators to plan The Holocaust that it actually leaves the viewer quite literally on the verge of nausea.  It is a horribly sad, but true tale, based upon the one surviving copy of the meeting’s [...]

HBO and writer/director Scott Z. Burns bring us this sensational, utterly believable and simultaneously terrifying story of a man named Timofey Berezin (Paddy Considine) working in one of the Soviet Union’s many secretive nuclear plants who is exposed to a fatal amount of radiation and must find a way to get enough money for [...]

Written and directed by Belgian film-maker Pieter Van Hees, Black XXX-Mas tells a surreal horror story of a hodgepodge of fairy-tales set in a bizarre world that seems at once in the future and in the present.  The overall narrative and plot most closely follows that of Little Red Riding Hood.  Be warned it’s very [...]

City of God (2002) (Cidade de Deus) is already quite a critically acclaimed film, but I had just recently finally seen the last five minutes and so felt it appropriate to weigh in both because I like to personally keep track of movies I see, it may help readers determine how much my tastes may [...]

This movie is an interesting example of how great movies can be made outside of traditional independent avenues and rather with the help of a premium cable movie network, in this case HBO.  Maria Full of Grace is a new movie set primarily in rural Columbia revolving around the life of Maria (Catalina Sandino Moreno), [...]

Let me begin by saying that yes, there are many additional indie movies which were great in the 1990s. This is a list of what I consider to be the best ten of the decade, ranked according to their greatness. You’re welcome to disagree with titles on this list, omissions, rankings, or anything else, but [...]

In many ways this was the true mainstream break-through for Wes Anderson as a director, though the film maintained that independent spirit that his earlier movie Bottle Rocket made such great usage of. Jason Schwartzman stars as Max Fischer, a character of enormous depth and knowledge, perpetually a creator of clubs and a masterer of [...]