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 'Frank Langella'
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· ★★★★
Good Night, and Good Luck (2005, George Clooney)
January 11th, 2008 · No Comments
George Clooney directs Good Night, and Good Luck with an absolute confidence. It’s Clooney’s second film, but he doesn’t just know how to make a restricted setting story (the film takes place in the CBS building, a bar, and two to three other locations) exciting… he also knows how to make an informative docudrama into […]
Tagged: David Strathairn· Frank Langella· George Clooney· Grant Heslov· Robert Downey Jr.· Warner Independent Pictures· ★★★★
Superman Returns (2006, Bryan Singer)
June 28th, 2006 · No Comments
My expectations for Superman Returns were incredibly high (especially since everything Bryan Singer’s done since The Usual Suspects with the exception of the “House” pilot has been dreck). Three stars. I don’t bother putting star ratings on The Stop Button, since whenever I see them in reviews, I look at them and then at not […]
Tagged: Bryan Singer· Dan Harris· Eva Marie Saint· Frank Langella· Jerry Siegel· Joe Shuster· Michael Dougherty· Parker Posey· Warner Bros.· ★★½
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 […]
Tagged: Ben Kingsley· Charles Grodin· Frank Langella· Gary Ross· Ivan Reitman· Kevin Kline· Laura Linney· Sigourney Weaver· Ving Rhames· Warner Bros.· ★★



