Critical Care opens on its main set–sets are important in Critical Care–with Helen Mirren (as a nurse) checking up on ICU patients. The ICU is a circle, Mirren rounding it by the end of the titles, returning to the station at the center, where James Spader (as a resident) naps during a thirty-six hour shift. […]
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Critical Care (1997, Sidney Lumet)
January 23rd, 2009 · No Comments
Tagged: Anne Bancroft· Helen Mirren· James Spader· Live Entertainment· Richard Dooling· Sidney Lumet· Steven Schwartz· ★★★★
Stargate (1994, Roland Emmerich), the director’s cut
March 24th, 2006 · No Comments
When I was sixteen, I wrote a review of Stargate for my school newspaper and I gave it four stars. Out of four. Since watching it for the first time since then–though I might have seen it on VHS pan and scanned, which isn’t the same film, Emmerich does use his whole frame–I’m not experiencing […]
Tagged: Carolco Pictures· Dean Devlin· James Spader· Kurt Russell· Roland Emmerich· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ
Speaking of Sex (2001, John McNaughton)
June 21st, 2005 · No Comments
Let me annotate the opening cast crawl with my thoughts at the time.…
James Spader–great, love him on “Boston Legal.”
Melora Walters–from Magnolia, love her, she’s in nothing.
Jay Mohr–liked him in Picture Perfect when I saw it, now can’t believe I liked it…
Catherine O’Hara, Bill Murray… solid people.
So what happened? It’s actually not all John McNaughton’s fault, which is […]
Tagged: Bill Murray· Catherine O'Hara· Gary Tieche· James Spader· John McNaughton· Studio Canal· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ




