Perhaps it’s the fact that director Gregor Jordan (who has made multiple appearances at Sundance since 1996) compared himself to Robert Altman, and this film to Short Cuts during the Q&A, but The Informers is just a film that I can’t jump behind. You could also chalk it up to not understanding a single thing [...]
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The Informers
January 23rd, 2009 No Comments
Tags: Amber Heard · Billy Bob Thorton · Gregor Jordan · Jon Foster · Kim Basinger · Mickey Rourke · The Informers · Winona Ryder
A Simple Plan
October 2nd, 2008 3 Comments
‘Sometimes good people do evil things.’ In this case, evil people do evil things. And it’s wickedly entertaining watching them do it. A Simple Plan was released in 1998, and should be seen by everyone.
Directed by Sam Raimi (The Grudge 2, The Messengers), this film is uncharacteristically good, coming from someone with his precedence. [...]
Tags: A Simple Plan · Bill Paxton · Billy Bob Thorton · Bridget Fonda · Gary Cole · Sam Raimi
Eagle Eye
October 1st, 2008 2 Comments
Remember, in the trailer, when Rosario Dawson’s character in Eagle Eye quips, ‘What if it’s a decoy, to distract us from something fifty times bigger?’ In the same vein, this film distracts the viewer with explosions, car chases, Shia LaBeouf’s facial hair, and computers with artificial intelligence, so we don’t notice the bigger issue: this [...]
Tags: Billy Bob Thorton · D.J. Caruso · John Glenn · Michelle Monaghan · Rosario Dawson · Shia LaBeouf · Steven Spielberg · Travis Wright
