SPARTAN (2004) Starring Val Kilmer, Derek Luke, Tia Texada, Kristen Bell, William H. Macy, Ed O’Neill, Jeremie Campbell, Bob Jennings, Lionel Mark Smith, Johnny Messner, Chris LaCentra, Renato Magno, Mark Fitzgerald, Tony Mamet, Clark Gregg, Ron Butler, Stephen Culp, Lauren Bowles and David Paymer. Screenplay by David Mamet. Directed by David Mamet. Distributed by Warner … Continue reading
Jonatha Brooke – Back in the Circus (Bad Dog/Verve) Jonatha Brooke has been out in the folk-pop trenches for almost twenty years, working up a great reputation in music circles, first as half of the acoustic duo The Story and then as a solo artist. Her music has mostly been released independently; only two Story albums and one solo were … Continue reading
SECRET WINDOW (2004) Starring Johnny Depp, John Turturro, Maria Bello, Timothy Hutton, Charles S. Dutton, Len Cariou, Joan Heney, John Dunn-Hill. Vlasta Vrana, Matt Holland, Gillian Ferrabee, Bronwen Mantel, Elizabeth Marleau, Kyle Allatt, Richard Jutras, Kevin Woodhouse, Vito DeFilippo and Sarah Allen. Screenplay by David Koepp. Directed by David Koepp. Distributed by Columbia Pictures. 97 … Continue reading
EUROTRIP (2004) Starring Scott Mechlowicz, Jacob Pitts, Kristin Kreuk, Cathy Meils, Nial Ishakov, Michelle Trachtenberg, Travis Wester, Fred Arnisen, Matt Damon, Molly Schade, Jakki Degg, Lenka Vomocilova, Jessica Boehrs, Andrea Stuart, Vinnie Jones, Jeffrey Tambor, Lucy Lawless, Jana Palaske, Steven Hytner, Joanna Lumley and Diedrich Bader. Screenplay by Alex Berg, David Mandel and Jeff Schaffer. … Continue reading
MY ARCHITECT – A SON’S JOURNEY (2004) Featuring Louis I. Kahn, Nathaniel Kahn, Sue Ann Kahn, Harriet Pattison, Anne Tyng, Alexandra Tyng, I.M. Pei, Moshe Safdie, Robert A.M. Stern, Edmund Bacon, Shamsul Wares, Philip Johnson and Frank O. Gehry. Written by Nathaniel Kahn. Directed by Nathaniel Kahn. Distributed by New Yorker Films. 116 minutes. Not … Continue reading
ALONG CAME POLLY (2004) Starring Ben Stiller, Jennifer Aniston, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Debra Messing, Alec Baldwin, Hank Azaria, Bryan Brown, Jsu Garcia, Michele Lee, Bob Dishy, Missy Pyle, Judah Friedlander, Kevin Hart, Masi Oka, Kym Whitley and Cheryl Hines. Screenplay by John Hamburg. Directed by John Hamburg. Distributed by Universal Pictures. 90 minutes. Rated PG-13. … Continue reading
STARSKY & HUTCH (2004) Starring Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn, Snoop Dogg, Fred Williamson, Juliette Lewis, Jason Bateman, Amy Smart, Carmen Electra, George Kee Cheung, Chris Penn, Brande Roderick, Molly Sims, Matt Walsh, Patton Oswalt, Will Ferrell, David Soul and Paul Michael Glaser. Screenplay by John O’Brien and Todd Phillips & Scot Armstrong. Directed … Continue reading
THE FOG OF WAR (2004) Featuring Robert McNamara. Directed by Errol Morris. Distributed by Sony Pictures Classics. 106 minutes. Rated PG-13. Some people are born for greatness. Some have it thrust upon them. Some people just stumble into it. Looking back over his life, Robert McNamara never seems to have planned or expected to play … Continue reading
THE DREAMERS (2004) Starring Michael Pitt, Eva Green, Louis Garrel, Robin Renucci, Anna Chancellor, Florian Cadiou, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Jean-Pierre Léuad and archival footage of Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Anna Karina and Jean Seberg. Screenplay by Gilbert Adair. Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. Distributed by Fox Searchlight Pictures. 115 minutes. Rated NC-17. It’s perhaps just bad timing … Continue reading
Toby Lightman Devils and an Angel by Jay S. Jacobs The music biz is always hungrily searching for the next big thing. They’re trying to find an artist that has the talent and the vibe and the chops to make a huge splash in the choppy waters of popular culture. It should be someone who has … Continue reading
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