They really should have cast Rosario Dawson as Wonder Woman. Never thought I’d be typing those words–even if it is just voice casting–but Dawson is so much better than Keri Russell, whose Wonder Woman comes off as dependent on Nathan Fillion’s male for everything down to pseudo-feminist banter. Russell’s voice defers and doesn’t suggest any […]
Entries Tagged as 'Alfred Molina'
Wonder Woman (2009, Lauren Montgomery)
September 6th, 2009 · No Comments
Tagged: Alfred Molina· Gail Simone· Lauren Montgomery· Michael Jelenic· Oliver Platt· Rosario Dawson· Warner Premiere· William M. Marston· ★½
The Lodger (2009, David Ondaatje)
March 15th, 2009 · No Comments
Okay, I thought Lodger auteur David Ondaatje was really his uncle (English Patient author) Michael Ondaatje. I wished I’d checked before starting the movie… even with Hope Davis in it, I’m not sure I would have watched it. It really changes my impression of it. All of the stupid zooming and fast-forwarding and post-production nonsense, […]
Tagged: Alfred Molina· David Ondaatje· Marie Belloc Lowndes· Philip Baker Hall· Stage 6 Films· ★
Boogie Nights (1997, Paul Thomas Anderson)
January 9th, 2009 · No Comments
Boogie Nights is so well-made, so stunningly made–I’m not even thinking about Anderson’s wonderful, lengthy steadicam sequences, I’m thinking about Philip Seymour Hoffman alone in his freshly painted car–it’s hard to think about anything else while watching it. The omnipresent soundtrack–Nights is a combination of American Graffiti (the prolific use of songs), Goodfellas (the way […]
Tagged: Alfred Molina· Burt Reynolds· Don Cheadle· John C. Reilly· Julianne Moore· New Line Cinema· Paul Thomas Anderson· Philip Seymour Hoffman· Thomas Jane· William H. Macy· ★★★
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· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981, Steven Spielberg)
May 19th, 2008 · No Comments
Don Siegel had an anecdote about the length of titles. He showed them to his boss, who kept asking for them to be longer, then showed them to the boss again, telling him each time he’d made the changes. In fact, he had not–his boss was simply familiar with the titles and couldn’t gauge the […]
Tagged: Alfred Molina· George Lucas· Harrison Ford· Lawrence Kasdan· Paramount Pictures· Philip Kaufman· Steven Spielberg· ★★★★
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981, Steven Spielberg)
February 18th, 2006 · No Comments
Maybe it was the viewing atmosphere… I also was obsessing about something I’d read from either Spielberg or Lucas claiming credit for “MTV-style” editing with Raiders. Once the film was edited, the two went through and snipped a few frames at each edit point to hurry the film along. As I watched Raiders tonight, it […]
Tagged: Alfred Molina· George Lucas· Harrison Ford· Lawrence Kasdan· Paramount Pictures· Philip Kaufman· Steven Spielberg· ★★★½
