Archive | March 2014
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Blue Is The Warmest Color (2013)
Review by-Jarrett Leahy Adele (Exarchopoulos) is a French high school student who is beginning to explore herself as a maturing woman. Despite dating a young man from school, she struggles with unresolved feelings about her sexuality. One day while walking in the city square, an exotic young lady sporting evocative blue hair catches Adele’s attentive […]
Proud to Welcome Two New Contributors!
Written by-Jarrett Leahy I am proud and excited to announce the addition of not one but two new contributing writers to AmateurCinephile.com. If you’ve been paying any attention to recent reviews, you’ll have noticed the recent inclusion at the bottom of the page, Edited by-Michelle Zenor. An English professor by trade, Michelle has an encyclopedic […]
Top 6 Lists-Under-appreciated Brad Pitt Films
List by-Jarrett Leahy This week’s Top 6 List is in honor of Brad Pitt, who can finally be called an Academy award winner after receiving an Oscar for his producer credit on 12 Years a Slave. When examining resumes of actors considered movie stars, rarely do you ever hear them described with words like diverse […]
Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
Review by-Jarrett Leahy After three decades of Hollywood success that includes the likes of the 2007 best picture winner No Country for Old Men, Fargo and The Big Lebowski, filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen’s cinematic reputation has deservedly earned them the right to create whatever they want. Inside Llewyn Davis, in all its somber beauty, […]
Mr. Nobody Finally Released on DVD
While walking around the DVD section of Walmart this morning, I just happened to stumble across a certain film that has been on my cinema radar for quite some time. Back in 2009, Jared Leto of Dallas Buyers Club fame, made a small independent psychological science fiction film called Mr. Nobody. Despite mostly positive reviews […]
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