Category: Directors

This was a mixed bag of a film. It starts out extraordinarily slow. It cuts between various characters experiencing a riot in Detroit in 1967 – until they all come together and all hell...

Katheryn Bigelow’s ninth feature film, Zero Dark Thirty details the years long search for Osama bin Laden. It starts with chilling recordings of phone calls made during 9/11 and lets you know immediately what...

The eighth feature film by Katheryn Bigelow earned six Oscars of the nine it was nominated for, including Best Picture and Best Director for Bigelow. This is a very grounded war film based in...

Based on the title, you would have no idea what this was about. I don’t think this was titled very well. This is a film starring Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson as Soviet submarine...

The sixth film by director Katheryn Bigelow, The Weight of Water is a movie that I watched. I had a hard time with this one. It was overly long, had two very muddled stories,...

Strange Days? The whole thing takes place at night! Offering commentary on race, power, the police system, and how people consume media. This movie doesn’t let anyone off the hook, least of all its...

Not to be confused with Derek Zoolander’s showstopping expression of the same name, Blue Steel is Katheryn Bigelow’s third feature film. It stars Jamie Lee Curtis as rookie cop Megan Turner, who kills an...

Near Dark is a 1987 film about a nomadic tribe of vampires that terrorize the American southwest when the sun goes down. One night, they bite young cowboy Caleb and turn him into a...

Katheryn Bigelow’s directorial debut (which also happens to be Willem Dafoe’s acting debut) was high on style, but low on substance. Not much happened over the sub-90 minute runtime. The story was light. Willem...