#2 – Calvary

“Killing a priest on a Sunday. That’ll be a good one.” This is the logline to John Michael McDonagh’s latest film “Calvary” and it’s outstanding. An examination of faith and guilt, set in a small Irish town and excellently cast. A confession is started and as the priest and his parishioner converse it’s very quickly…

#44 – Nightcrawler

Nightcrawler is a film about obsession. There are a lot of themes and explored but the foremost is obsession and Jake Gyllenhaal plays his character to almost perfection as Lou Bloom strives for success and the American dream. We first meet Lou as a lonely outcast, a hustler looking for any opportunity to scratch together a…