I have a hard time identifying my biggest problem with Dogma. Is it the lack of good narrative? Smith’s script, which does have some very funny scenes in it, is one of the worst attempts at an epical plot I’ve ever seen. It’s inept. It’s pat. Combined with some of the terrible performances, the whole […]
Entries Tagged as 'Alan Rickman'
Dogma (1999, Kevin Smith)
April 12th, 2009 · 3 Comments
Tagged: Alan Rickman· Ben Affleck· Jeff Anderson· Kevin Smith· Linda Fiorentino· Lions Gate Films· Matt Damon· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ
Bottle Shock (2008, Randall Miller)
August 19th, 2008 · No Comments
I have to make a disclosure. I try to drink the highest Robert Parker rated wine I can afford. They’ve tended to be French. Actually, I think they’ve all been French. But whatever.
Because Bottle Shock seems rather like advertising for Napa Valley wine, so much so, I’d love to see who financed it. There should […]
Tagged: Alan Rickman· Bill Pullman· Freestyle Releasing· Jody Savin· Lannette Pabon· Randall Miller· Ross Schwartz· ★
Love Actually (2003, Richard Curtis)
February 8th, 2008 · No Comments
Richard Curtis–I think–said he wrote Love Actually from all his unused ideas. Just threw them into the oven and baked them together. To some degree, it shows. Unlike the usual big cast films, with lots of incidental meetings and relationships (as P.T. Anderson wrote, these things “happen all the time”), Love Actually is very loose. […]
Tagged: Alan Rickman· Bill Nighy· Chiwetel Eliofor· Hugh Grant· Laura Linney· Richard Curtis· Universal Pictures· ★★★
Die Hard (1988, John McTiernan)
December 25th, 2007 · 1 Comment
Talking about Die Hard is complicated for lots of reasons. Besides Aliens, I think it’s the best popular action film ever made and, given when it came out, it’s very familiar. It shouldn’t be full of surprises and, in many ways, is not (though Theo and Karl having a bet on Takagi is something new […]
Tagged: 20th Century Fox· Alan Rickman· Bruce Willis· Jeb Stuart· John McTiernan· Roderick Thorp· Steven E. de Souza· William Atherton· ★★★★
The January Man (1989, Pat O’Connor)
October 3rd, 2007 · No Comments
People hate The January Man, just hate it. It’s famous for being hated, in fact. It’s one of the earliest movies I can remember real bile about. Dune’s another one, but Dune deserves it. The January Man gets a lot of it because it’s from the pen of John Patrick Shanley, that screenwriting whirlwind behind […]
Tagged: Alan Rickman· John Patrick Shanley· Kevin Kline· Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio· Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer· Pat O'Connor· ★
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007, David Yates)
July 16th, 2007 · No Comments
I’m out of touch. I realized I saw three blockbusters this summer, something I hadn’t done since 1999 or so. When the opportunity to see Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix presented itself, I leapt at it. I figured I could get a good sense of the state of the Hollywood blockbuster. Amusingly, […]
Tagged: Alan Rickman· David Yates· Gary Oldman· J.K. Rowling· Maggie Smith· Michael Goldenberg· Warner Bros.· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ



