Top 10 Favorite Dramas

Quentin Tarantino's magnum opus, with it's haphazardly action, quotable pop-cultured dialogue, and memorable characters it was like a adrenaline filled needle that jolted hollywood cinema and influences it to this day

While the first part is classic because it raises Corleone crime family's saga to an epic-like myth, the second part is a timeless classic because it bring's the story down to the realm of a greek tragedy both humanizing Vitto Coreleone's rise to the top of the criminal underworld, and accentuating his son's moral downward spiral as he tries to keep that empire together.

With it's perfect cast, splendid action, precision timing comic relief, beautiful scenery & shots, and it's soaring film score, Serge Leone's picture is not only the greatest 'spaghetti western' but 'francamente' it may just be the greatest western ever made, certainly a timeless classic.

Martin Scorsese's visceral tour-de-force is jewel of the New Hollywood film period, chronicles the psychotic breakdown of one of film's most enigmatic characters; Travis Bickle, both sincere, endearing, empathic yet deranged, abusive, and dangerous brought to life Robert De Niro in the prime of his career.

Violent, nihilistic, hedonistic, dark, and masochistic this neo-noiry-psycho-drama may be a bit heavy handed with it's commentary on commercialism, individualism, machismo, and fascism but it's still one hell of a ride, if you can take the punch we couldn't be happier to have met you in a 'very strange time' and I will be talking about fight club!

Riding high from his 'Godfather' success, Coppola took Joseph Conrad's novella masterpiece "The Heart of Darkness" and adapted into his film masterpiece, relocating space and time from the dirges of the brutal 19th century imperialistic Africa, to concurrent and divisive conflict in Vietnam the criticism shifted from European imperialism to American Intervention, and demonstrating the horrors of war and casualties the psyche takes in combat.

Cinema's greatest auteur directs the greatest science fiction film ever. A cinematic experience that's visual astonishing and 'light years' ahead of it's time, and a plot that show cases some of the most existential questions ever asked in human history, but leaves the audience to ponder for the answers after the credits have rolled. Kubrick's creation is a prime example that showcases why film is the superior story telling method compared to all others.

Combining the greatest film director of all time with it's most charming star of all time in the prime of their careers and we get one of the most exhilarating films ever to be made. Cultivating many of the action, thriller, & spy genre's cliques and setting the stage for the James Bonds, John McClanes, and other summer action blockbusters to come, it still stands the test of time.

Michael Mann's cerebal crime thriller pitting two of the biggest stars in Hollywood in a hair raising game of cat & mouse. Setting the stage for some of the greatest heist scene and chases to ever be shot by a camera.

Confusing, dreamlike, sensational, emotive, bizarre, and bewildering all and more to be expected (and unexpected) from a paradigm Lynchian film. A sensational poison valentine to the monster that is Hollywood and the film business while exploring the boundaries of human sensation, perception, consciousness, and desire.

An honorable mention, of all the Ford & Wayne pairings this was there greatest achievement (a huge accomplish when overlooking their work). With Wayne's large then life character exemplifying the mythic loner cowboy character, Ford's exceptional directing, breathe-taking Monument Valley (a staple of Ford's work), and story that exemplifies the American will to triumph.