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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 […]

The Imposter (2012)

Review by-Jarrett Leahy On June 13th, 1994 a 13-year-old boy named Nicholas Barclay goes missing from his rural neighborhood located just north of San Antonio, TX. For the next three years, the Barclay family searches in vain to find their missing child, when miraculously they are contacted by officials located in Spain who have information […]