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Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths (2010, Sam Liu and Lauren Montgomery)

February 16th, 2010 · No Comments

The new wave of superhero cartoons for, ostensibly, adults (because they’re rated PG-13) has turned out a handful of decent pictures. The directors of this one, Montgomery and Liu, separately, directed the entirety of that handful. So I thought I’d try it for them. Plus, this one’s written by Dwayne McDuffie, who’s a comic book […]

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Tagged: Dwayne McDuffie· James Woods· Lauren Montgomery· Sam Liu· Warner Premiere· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ

Diggstown (1992, Michael Ritchie)

December 19th, 2008 · No Comments

I forgot MGM still made movies in the 1990s. The aura of bankruptcy and failure has surrounded Leo for so long… it’s distracting. I remember my Diggstown laserdisc sleeve. It’s been at least ten years since I’ve seen the movie. It’s still a great time and I’m left, as I always was when finishing it, […]

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Tagged: James Woods· Leonard Wise· Louis Gossett Jr.· Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer· Michael Ritchie· Oliver Platt· Steven McKay· ★★★

True Believer (1989, Joseph Ruben)

April 7th, 2008 · No Comments

True Believer is never quite anything it sets out for (story-wise)–it’s not the story of a lost man finding his way, it’s not a legal drama, it’s not the story of a young lawyer spurning riches for morals. Instead, it’s a courtroom movie with corruption, chase scenes through metal shops, a great Brad Fiedel score […]

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Tagged: Columbia Pictures· James Woods· Joseph Ruben· Kurtwood Smith· Robert Downey Jr.· Wesley Strick· ★★½

Badge of the Assassin (1985, Mel Damski)

August 3rd, 2007 · No Comments

Mel Damski, if Badge of the Assassin is any indication, might be the finest TV movie director ever (who never went on to good theatrical films anyway). He understands composition, camera movement, editing–how to let actors do what actors do–beautifully. Badge of the Assassin looks like a TV movie and that description is, thanks in […]

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Tagged: CBS Television· James Woods· Lawrence Roman· Mel Damski· Philip Rosenberg· Richard Bradford· Robert K. Tannenbaum· Yaphet Kotto· ★★½

Chaplin (1992, Richard Attenborough)

April 19th, 2006 · No Comments

Just today, I met someone who recently watched The Postman and thought it was a good film. She’s probably the third or fourth person (I think the third) who I’ve met–since 1997–who agreed it was a good film. Though Chaplin has five years on that one, I’ve never met anyone else who thinks it’s good. […]

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Tagged: Bryan Forbes· Charles Chaplin· David Robinson· Diana Hawkins· James Woods· Kevin Dunn· Kevin Kline· Milla Jovovich· Penelope Ann Miller· Richard Attenborough· Robert Downey Jr.· Tri-Star Pictures· William Boyd· William Goldman· ★★★★

Eyewitness (1981, Peter Yates)

October 8th, 2005 · No Comments

Eyewitness gets a lot of abuse.
Peter Yates has become a punch-line to many a film joke, usually by people who love Breaking Away and don’t remember he did it. Eyewitness is an incredibly odd film–and not entirely successful, the protagonist (William Hurt) tends to talk to Sigourney Weaver straight from the id, no filtering. Her character […]

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Tagged: 20th Century Fox· Christopher Plummer· James Woods· Morgan Freeman· Pamela Reed· Peter Yates· Sigourney Weaver· Steve Tesich· William Hurt· ★★½

Night Moves (1975, Arthur Penn)

September 12th, 2005 · No Comments

I have a confession to make with Night Moves. I first started watching it when I was fifteen and home sick from school. I wanted to see Knight Moves with Christopher Lambert and I got this one instead. I liked Gene Hackman (or said I did) so I started watching it and I turned it […]

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Tagged: Alan Sharp· Arthur Penn· Gene Hackman· James Woods· Susan Clark· Warner Bros.· ★★★★

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