Oh, good grief. The Prestige is in IMDb’s top 250 movies? It’s so bad, I’m actually going to say something nice about Christopher Nolan in a second here. I’ve never heard of source novelist Christopher Priest and no one I know has ever mentioned him to me, so I’m guessing he’s pretty godawful, which probably […]
Entries Tagged as 'Touchstone Pictures'
The Prestige (2006, Christopher Nolan)
November 4th, 2009 · No Comments
Tagged: Christopher Nolan· Christopher Priest· Hugh Jackman· Jonathan Nolan· Michael Caine· Scarlett Johansson· Touchstone Pictures· Warner Bros.· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ
Surrogates (2009, Jonathan Mostow)
October 23rd, 2009 · No Comments
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 […]
Tagged: Brett Weldele· Bruce Willis· John Brancato· Jonathan Mostow· Michael Ferris· Radha Mitchell· Robert Venditti· Touchstone Pictures· Ving Rhames· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001, Wes Anderson)
March 30th, 2009 · No Comments
The Royal Tenenbaums is a profound examination of the human condition. It’s hard to think about Tenenbaums, which Anderson made as a precious object–he tends to put the actors on the right and fill the left side of the frame with exactly placed sundries, sometimes it’s the carefully placed minutiae, but he usually puts those […]
Tagged: Alec Baldwin· Ben Stiller· Bill Murray· Danny Glover· Gene Hackman· Luke Wilson· Owen Wilson· Touchstone Pictures· Wes Anderson· ★★★★
Rushmore (1998, Wes Anderson)
March 10th, 2009 · 2 Comments
The best moment in Rushmore, the one it all comes together, is at the end, when Jason Schwartzmann dedicates his play to his mother. There’s a brief cut to Seymour Cassel and his reaction. It’s a beautiful little moment and quieter than the subsequent (and also incredibly quiet) moment with Vietnam vet Bill Murray tearing […]
Tagged: Bill Murray· Brian Cox· Jason Schwartzman· Luke Wilson· Owen Wilson· Touchstone Pictures· Wes Anderson· ★★★★
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004, Wes Anderson)
February 19th, 2009 · 1 Comment
The problem with The Life Aquatic reveals itself quite clearly in the final act, as the cast all gives Bill Murray shoulder squeezes of support. The scene is supposed to mean something profound. It’s Murray confronting not just his Moby Dick (a quest for vengeance lost in the film, maybe because they knew it was […]
Tagged: Bill Murray· Cate Blanchett· Noah Baumbach· Owen Wilson· Touchstone Pictures· Wes Anderson· Willem Dafoe· ★★★
Ed Wood (1994, Tim Burton)
November 13th, 2008 · No Comments
Ed Wood is a biopic of the unsung. The “misfits and dope addicts” of impossibly low budget American filmmaking. The film’s epilogue, following up with the characters, puts the film on the same level as all other big Hollywood biopics. Except this one is about someone who really didn’t do anything (and didn’t even get […]
Tagged: Bill Murray· Johnny Depp· Larry Karaszewski· Patricia Arquette· Rudolph Grey· Scott Alexander· Tim Burton· Touchstone Pictures· ★★★★
Dan in Real Life (2007, Peter Hedges)
May 16th, 2008 · No Comments
Is there a dearth of WASP family dramas right now? I guess there must be. Dan in Real Life certainly fills the void–and is probably the only time I’ve ever thought about a movie in terms of it being a WASP affair (that accusation against Wes Anderson is, for example, one I find unfounded).
It’s a […]
Tagged: Dianne Wiest· Peter Hedges· Pierce Gardner· Touchstone Pictures· ★★
