This film is an interesting one - a small ensemble drama that ratchets tension up bit by bit. It could have been a stage place except for the vital necessity of a camera. Ethan Hawke and Philip Seymour Hoffman are brothers embroiled separately in various unseemly habits when they decide to commit a […]
I missed this in the theatre and, sour-grapes-style, presumed it was some half-baked Seven retread. Sure, directed by David Fincher, but all those reliable names have let us down at one time or another. It was advertised exploitatively and then poof! Gone. So why did I see it now? Frankly, […]
Looking a bit like a rangy Ed Harris, Viggo Mortenson plays Nikolai, a tough Russian mobster whose dealings collide with Anna, a British OB/GYN. The collision comes in the form of a young Russian girl’s tragedy, but their paths do not immediately cross. He is entangled in the vor v zakone Russian Mafia and […]
I settled in to watch Gone Baby Gone with a little trepidation. Casey Affleck has been a genial enough actor in 200 Cigarettes, the American Pie movies, and the Ocean’s trilogy. Ben Affleck, a recognized writer and returned to respectable actor (thanks to Hollywoodland) is an untried director. The subject matter? A sort-of […]
