I’ve been stewing over my review of Where the Wild Things Are for a full seven days now. Mostly I’m baffled at how much I enjoyed it, and how well it was done. The book, I’m told, was one of my favorites growing up. Still, I felt no allegiance to the film, and when everyone [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Paul Dano'
Where the Wild Things Are
November 2nd, 2009 3 Comments
Tags: Catherine Keener · Catherine O'Hara · Dave Eggers · Forest Whitaker · James Gandolfini · Lance Acord · Lauren Ambrose · Maurice · Max Records · Paul Dano · Spike Jonze · Where the Wild Things
Gigantic
April 30th, 2009 1 Comment
Matt Asleton’s Gigantic is a gigantic failure. Okay, it’s not that bad, but it was too easy to use that line. What Gigantic does suffer from, is this odd trend in the past 10 years that favors indie-films that are about as quirky as can be (see: Juno, Little Miss Sunshine, and a load of [...]
Tags: Adam Nagata · Gigantic · John Goodman · Kim Basinger · Matt Asleton · Paul Dano · Zooey Deschanel
The King
September 28th, 2008 No Comments
The King is one of those subtly disquieting movies that often doesn’t get the attention it deserves because of a lesser known cast, or the fact it’s independent, or else…well, I’ve never understood why people ignore good films.
Released in 2005, The King was written and directed by James Marsh. Previous to this film, Marsh had [...]
Tags: Gael García Bernal · James Marsh · Paul Dano · Pell James · The King · William Hurt
