So they take Bruce Willis and de-age him, but then they put Rosamund Pike in old age make-up? That one doesn’t make much sense.
Surrogates is another modern future concept movie–like iRobot or Minority Report–the future comes crashing down because of the movie star hero, there’s some kind of conspiracy involving the new technology, on and on […]
Entries Tagged as 'Ving Rhames'
Surrogates (2009, Jonathan Mostow)
October 23rd, 2009 · No Comments
Tagged: Brett Weldele· Bruce Willis· John Brancato· Jonathan Mostow· Michael Ferris· Radha Mitchell· Robert Venditti· Touchstone Pictures· Ving Rhames· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ
Mission: Impossible III (2006, J.J. Abrams)
February 18th, 2009 · No Comments
After two asinine outings, Tom Cruise finally figured out how to get a Mission: Impossible to work. There’s an actual story–the viewer’s engagement with the plot doesn’t revolve around one’s appreciation of Tom Cruise and his frequent grin. The difference is in Cruise himself. He’s no longer charming the women aged twelve to fifty-two in […]
Tagged: Alex Kurtzman· Billy Crudup· Bruce Geller· J.J. Abrams· Laurence Fishburne· Paramount Pictures· Philip Seymour Hoffman· Roberto Orci· Tom Cruise· Ving Rhames· ★★
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.· ★★
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, […]
Tagged: Cliff Curtis· Joe Connelly· Marc Anthony· Martin Scorsese· Nicolas Cage· Paramount Pictures· Patricia Arquette· Paul Schrader· Tom Sizemore· Ving Rhames· ★★★★



