Welcome to our 18th review in our hunt for film nirvana within the IMDB Top 250 films! This week we join James Stewart and Jean Arthur as they fight the fiendish Jim Taylor and his graft machine in Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939).
Welcome to our 17th review in our hunt for film nirvana within the IMDB Top 250 films! This week we follow the Conlon boys in Pittsburgh as they attempt to recover some type of family relationship through the medium of extreme violence in Warrior (2011).
Welcome to our 16th review in our hunt for film nirvana within the IMDB Top 250 films! This week we return to classic Hollywood, and to the story of a fading movie star residing on Sunset Boulevard (1950).
Welcome to our 15th review in our hunt for film nirvana within the IMDB Top 250 films! This week we absolutely SLATE Interstellar (2014). Be prepared for a rant or two.
Welcome to our 14th review in our hunt for film nirvana within the IMDB Top 250 films! This week we review one of the BIG BEASTS of cinema, Citizen Kane (1941).
Welcome to our 13th review in our hunt for film nirvana within the IMDB Top 250 films! This week we have our first (and only taste) of Iranian cinema as we follow Nader and Simin in A Separation (2011).
Welcome to our 12th review in our hunt for film nirvana within the IMDB Top 250 films! This week we spend time with Tom Hanks and Michael Clarke Duncan on The Green Mile (1999).
Welcome to our 11th review in our hunt for film nirvana within the IMDB Top 250 films! This week we head to Mexico City to follow the stories of Octavia, Spencer, Daniel, Valeria, and El Chivo in Amores Perros (2000). We follow their stories of love, lust, betrayal, violence and lots and lots of dogs...
Welcome to our tenth review in our hunt for film nirvana within the IMDB Top 250 films! This week we leave Hollywood behind us and venture into the wonderful and weird world of Japanese cinema. But will Rashomon (1950) be a welcome first step, or will it just leave us slightly confused?
Welcome to our ninth review in our hunt for film nirvana within the IMDB Top 250 films! This week we join Hiccup and Toothless as they attempt to solve their mutual dragon/human problem in How To Train Your Dragon (2010). A great family movie, but does it belong in the IMDB Top 250 films?
Welcome to our seventh review in our hunt for film nirvana within the IMDB Top 250 films! This week we finish our mini-run of war films with Apocalypse Now (1979). Adapted from The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conran, we follow Martin Sheen as he travels upriver to confront Marlon Brandos super insane Colonel Kurtz. But will he be able to escape the madness all around him?
Welcome to our eighth review in our hunt for film nirvana within the IMDB Top 250 films! This week we (re)watch Gladiator (2000), and we ask - ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED???
Welcome to our sixth review in our hunt for film nirvana within the IMDB Top 250 films! This week we continue on to the second of our mini-war movie run with The Battle of Algiers (1966). Can we learn to love a black and white, French language movie about an event in history we know next to nothing about? Perhaps...
Welcome to our fifth review in our hunt for film nirvana within the IMDB Top 250 films! This week we start the first of our mini-war movie run with Platon (1986). We follow Charlie Sheens Chris as he enters, and endures, the war in Vietnam.
Welcome to our fourth review in our hunt for film nirvana within the IMDB Top 250 films! This week we watched Before Sunset (2004), a follow up to last weeks episode, Before Sunrise. Did Jesse and Celine meet up 6 months later, or did it all go horribly wrong?
Welcome to our third review in our hunt for film nirvana within the IMDB Top 250 films! This week we watched Before Sunrise (1994), our first romance movie, which provided further proof that one of us is dead on the inside.
Welcome to our first bonus review in our hunt for film nirvana! In honour of Star Wars day tomorrow, we returned to our favourite non-Top 250 Star Wars movie, Rogue One (2016). May the Force be With You.
Welcome to our second review in our hunt for film nirvana! This week we go back to the earliest days of cinema, with the first of two Buster Keaton movies in the IMDB Top 250 - Sherlock Jr. (1924).
Welcome to the first film review in our quest to find film nirvana! And what better place to start than with a Spielberg film, starring Tom Hanks and Leonardo DiCaprio - Catch Me If You Can (2002).
Hello, my friends, my film lovers! Welcome to the intro episode of our new podcast, Film Nirvana. What is Film Nirvana, you say? It is a review podcast of the IMDB Top 250 films (and more...). It will be a weekly podcast, with episodes released every Tuesday morning. We would love you to join us for our five-year mission.