Modern Movie Watchlist

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Detroit

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...

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Zero Dark Thirty

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...

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The Hurt Locker

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...

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K-19: The Widowmaker

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...

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The Killer

David Fincher is back for his twelfth feature film, aptly named The Killer. It opens with a hitman (Michael Fassbender) botching a job he was confident in. After fleeing the scene, he learns his...

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The Weight of Water – Heavy

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,...

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Strange Days – Stranger Nights

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...

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Blue Steel

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...