Once upon a time (in Hollywood), there was a bald director (who always wore a cap) who first got famous on television as an actor, then as a director of comedies, who then started making excellent mainstream Hollywood pictures. Then he started making mainstream crap and then it got worse.
The question of Frost/Nixon is the question […]
Entries Tagged as 'Ron Howard'
Frost/Nixon (2008, Ron Howard)
December 29th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Tagged: Frank Langella· Kevin Bacon· Oliver Platt· Peter Morgan· Ron Howard· Sam Rockwell· Universal Pictures· ★★★★
Changeling (2008, Clint Eastwood)
November 3rd, 2008 · 2 Comments
During the lousiest parts of Changeling–easily identifiable by Jeffrey Donovan’s increased presence–there should be a disclaimer running across the bottom of the screen: “It doesn’t stay this bad… promise.”
Changeling is the worst film Clint Eastwood’s made in years. It’s easily the worst of his serious films–afterwards, I realized his last film before this one was […]
Tagged: Clint Eastwood· J. Michael Straczynski· Ron Howard· Universal Pictures· ★
The Da Vinci Code (2006, Ron Howard)
September 9th, 2008 · No Comments
Hans Zimmer did the score for The Da Vinci Code? I hope he apologized to James Horner for all the plagiarisms (particularly from Horner’s two Star Trek scores and then Aliens).
I don’t know where to start with The Da Vinci Code, except maybe to say it’s the finest film of its kind. It’s actually amazing–even […]
Tagged: Akiva Goldsman· Alfred Molina· Columbia Pictures· Dan Brown· Jürgen Prochnow· Ron Howard· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ
American Graffiti (1973, George Lucas)
July 4th, 2008 · 3 Comments
I don’t know where to start. The most flippant place to start–the most colloquial–is with George Lucas… specifically, what happened to the George Lucas who made American Graffiti. But it’s not just Lucas. Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck didn’t go on to write anything close to Graffiti–the conversations in the film, the dialogue, is exceptional, […]
Tagged: Charles Martin Smith· George Lucas· Gloria Katz· Harrison Ford· Richard Dreyfuss· Ron Howard· Universal Pictures· Willard Huyck· ★★★★
Ransom (1996, Ron Howard), the extended version
March 23rd, 2007 · No Comments
Ransom is not Richard Price’s only “big Hollywood” movie (and it’s probably not his most anomalous one either), but there’s something very particular about the film. You’re watching a mix of various 1990s genres–a Mel Gibson movie, a Richard Price cop movie, and a Ron Howard movie. Except not the current Oscar-bait Ron Howard, the […]
Tagged: Alexander Ignon· Cyril Hume· Delroy Lindo· Liev Schreiber· Mel Gibson· Rene Russo· Richard Maibaum· Richard Price· Ron Howard· Touchstone Pictures



