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Transsiberian (2008, Brad Anderson)

September 8th, 2008 · No Comments

The train thriller has been a film standard for seventy years, probably longer. I can’t remember the last one, as the genre’s sort of fallen off in the last ten years. The naive American tourist is trouble genre is younger, but not by much. Transsiberian combines the two–a natural combination–but it’s far more of a […]

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Tagged: Ben Kingsley· Brad Anderson· First Look Studios· Will Conroy· Woody Harrelson· ★½

Bugsy (1991, Barry Levinson), the extended cut

February 26th, 2008 · 1 Comment

It’s amazing what can be done with cinematography and makeup. In Bugsy, specially lighted and caked with makeup, fifty-something Warren Beatty can play late thirties something Ben Siegel, albeit specially lighted and caked in makeup. The lighting is incredibly distracting, particularly in the scenes where Beatty is the only one getting the attempt at age-defying […]

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Tagged: Barry Levinson· Bebe Neuwirth· Ben Kingsley· Dean Jennings· Elliot Gould· James Toback· Joe Mantegna· Tri-Star Pictures· Warren Beatty· ★★

Lucky Number Slevin (2006, Paul McGuigan)

April 8th, 2006 · No Comments

Critics enjoy ruining movies on the day of release. They must–Roger Ebert gives away more endings then not (he gave away The Sixth Sense of all things). Worse, however, is when critics spoil the experience for the audience. I read a couple reviews of Lucky Number Slevin today and one said it’d have audiences picking […]

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Tagged: Ben Kingsley· Bruce Willis· Jason Smilovic· Josh Hartnett· Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer· Morgan Freeman· Paul McGuigan· Stanley Tucci· ★★★

The Assignment (1997, Christian Duguay)

March 23rd, 2006 · 1 Comment

Since it’s Robert Ludlum week here at The Stop Button (actually it’s not, these two were a coincidence), I watched The Assignment, which is an unofficial adaptation of Ludlum’s Bourne trilogy. Again, I read Ludlum back when I was in junior high–maybe early high school–and I remember seeing this film and wondering why it wasn’t […]

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Tagged: Aidan Quinn· Ben Kingsley· Christian Duguay· Dan Gordon· Donald Sutherland· Sabi H. Shabtai· Triumph Films· ★★

Dave (1993, Ivan Reitman)

December 6th, 2005 · No Comments

I love scenes where actors eat. There’s a great scene in Dave with Sigourney Weaver eating a sandwich. Great stuff.
It occurred to me, while watching the film, that, while it’s still cute, it’s already a relic and it’s only twelve years old. The idea of a person wanting to be President in order to help other […]

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Tagged: Ben Kingsley· Charles Grodin· Frank Langella· Gary Ross· Ivan Reitman· Kevin Kline· Laura Linney· Sigourney Weaver· Ving Rhames· Warner Bros.· ★★

Sneakers (1992, Phil Alden Robinson)

November 20th, 2005 · 1 Comment

Describing Ocean’s Eleven, Steven Soderbergh said he wanted to “make a movie that has no desire except to give you pleasure from beginning to end.”
He seems to have ripped off that idea from Sneakers.
Robert Redford is a lot more serious than I tend to think. So’s Paul Newman for that matter. We know the affable Redford […]

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Tagged: Ben Kingsley· David Strathairn· James Earl Jones· Lawrence Lasker· Mary McDonnell· Phil Alden Robinson· Robert Redford· Sidney Poitier· Universal Pictures· Walter F. Parkes· ★★★

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