Movie Reviews

Rating: 4 Out Of 10 PhilosoGuys It is a rarity in today’s film scene for a science fiction film to be made without much computer generated idiocy (Avatar, for example). Science fiction used to mean something more than outer space dog fights and ridiculous aliens: it used to concern the human condition when faced with [...]

Rating: 8 Out Of 10 PhilosoGuys “Pol Pot’s Birthday” is a hilarious short film that takes place on Pol Pot’s Birthday as he and his Khmer Rouge army retreat into the jungles of Cambodia following their defeat to the Vietnamese army. The acting is spectacularly comical and dark: Pol Pot’s mood swings and deadpan delivery [...]

Rating: 6 Out Of 10 PhilosoGuys The Coen Brothers are master film makers. Making even just one film as good as Fargo, The Big Lebowski or No Country For Old Men would reserve a place of honor for any filmmaker. it just so happens that the Coen Brothers made all three… A Serious Man is [...]

Rating: 10 Out Of 10 PhilosoGuys David Lean’s masterpiece, Lawrence of Arabia, is many movie genres in one. It is part historical study of World War One military operations in the Middle East. It is part political drama as Brits and Arabs vie for power in the coming vacuum of Turkish defeat. It is part [...]

Bridge on the River Kwai – 10 out of 10 PhilosoGuys David Lean’s masterpiece about a Japanese Prison Camp in Thailand and the construction of the Burmese Railroad over the Kwai River is as magnificent and important today as it was over 50 years ago. The acting is some of the best this author has [...]