I thought there were no anti-conservative Hollywood films for a long while after 9/11, so I guess Runaway Jury went under the radar. It appears to have been a significant bomb and, watching it, it seemed strange to see John Grisham’s name on screen. It’s been a long time since adaptations of his novels have […]
Entries Tagged as 'Cliff Curtis'
Runaway Jury (2003, Gary Fleder)
February 1st, 2008 1 Comment
Recommend on MahaloSunshine (2007, Danny Boyle)
July 31st, 2007 No Comments
Sunshine appears to be an amalgam of Alien, 2001 and Event Horizon (at least, if Event Horizon’s previews adequately communicate the film’s content, not having seen it). There are Alien references abound, a handful of 2001 ones, and no Event Horizon ones I’m aware of… I imagine they’d try to hide those as well as […]
Live Free or Die Hard (2007, Len Wiseman)
July 5th, 2007 No Comments
Remember the “Simpsons” episode where Bart watches ‘Die Hard’ jump out the window? Live Free or Die Hard–the title, incidentally, has nothing to do with the film’s content–is the first one where I expected McClane’s nickname to be ‘Die Hard.’ They come close in terms of self-reference….
Still, as a Die Hard movie, it’s about as […]
Bringing Out the Dead (1999, Martin Scorsese)
November 6th, 2005 No Comments
What to say about Bringing Out the Dead… I remember now why 1999 was the hardest year to make a top ten list for–and I hadn’t even seen Wonderland at that point. Whatever. It’s the best. It’s certainly Scorsese’s best work in the 1990s, puts the rest to a kind of shame (it’s odd, then, […]
