Wes Anderson The Director Gives Us a Guided Tour of The Grand Budapest Hotel by Brad Balfour On the surface, the narrative driving Wes Anderson’s eighth film is pretty simple. During the fictional glory days of The Grand Budapest Hotel (starting back in 1932), its exacting Concierge Monsieur Gustave H. (Ralph Fiennes) fiercely maintains its … Continue reading
Le Week-End There is an old song that says “There’s a thin line between love and hate.” As Le Week-End intriguingly points out, sometimes there is no line separating them at all. “You can’t not love and hate the same person, usually within the space of five minutes, in my experience.” So says Nick Burrows, a sixty-something recently-fired … Continue reading
ANNIE HALL (1977) Starring Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Carol Kane, Paul Simon, Shelley Duvall, Janet Margolin, Colleen Dewhurst, Christopher Walken, Donald Symington, Helen Ludlam, Mordecai Lawner, Joan Newman, Jonathan Munk, Ruth Volner, Martin Rosenblatt, Beverly D’Angelo, Shelley Hack, Jeff Goldblum, Lucy Lee Flippen, Gary Muledeer, Marshall McLuhan, Dick Cavett and Sigourney Weaver. Screenplay … Continue reading
Vincent D’Onofrio & Dick Wolf One Last Time with Criminal Intent by Jay S. Jacobs It’s all come down to this. After nine seasons and three pairs of lead detectives, we are at the final season of Law & Order: Criminal Intent. Or are we? The USA Network has offered the show one final wrap-up season. In return, … Continue reading
MORNING GLORY (2010) Starring Rachel McAdams, Harrison Ford, Diane Keaton, Patrick Wilson, Jeff Goldblum, John Pankow, Ty Burrell, Matt Malloy, J. Elaine Marcos, Patti D’Arbanville, Adrian Martinez, Maddie Corman, Don Hewitt, Curtis ’50 Cent’ Jackson, Lloyd Banks, Bob Schieffer, Morley Safer and Chris Matthews. Screenplay by Aline Brosh McKenna. Directed by Roger Michell. Distributed by … Continue reading
THE SWITCH (2010) Starring Jason Bateman, Jennifer Aniston, Patrick Wilson, Jeff Goldblum, Juliette Lewis, Thomas Robinson, Caroline Dhavernas, Kelli Barrett, Scott Elrod, Victor Pagan, Edward James Hyland and Todd Louiso. Screenplay by Allan Loeb. Directed by Josh Gordon and Will Speck. Distributed by Miramax Pictures. 101 minutes. Rated PG-13. In the last several months I … Continue reading
Jeff Goldblum Is Not Dead Yet by Jay S. Jacobs The one constant in producer Dick Wolf’s Law & Order franchises has been change. Ever since the first season of the flagship series and star George Dzundza decided to move on, no actor or character was completely safe. As the franchise expanded (there are currently three Law & … Continue reading
Vincent D’Onofrio and Kathryn Erbe Cool Intentions by Jay S. Jacobs The Law and Order franchises are universally known for their high-caliber of acting. Of all of the great actors who have portrayed policemen or court officers in the series – including such respected names as Sam Waterson, Jerry Orbach, Mariska Hargitay, Christopher Meloni, Chris Noth – … Continue reading
MAN OF THE YEAR (2006) Starring Robin Williams, Christopher Walken, Laura Linney, Lewis Black, Jeff Goldblum, Rick Roberts, David Alpay, Linda Kash and Jacqueline Pillon. Screenplay by Barry Levinson. Directed by Barry Levinson. Distributed by Universal Pictures. 115 minutes. Rated PG-13. Sometimes a bad movie has an extremely good coming attractions trailer which makes it … Continue reading
THE LIFE AQUATIC WITH STEVE ZISSOU (2004) Starring Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Cate Blanchett, Anjelica Huston, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum, Michael Gambon, Noah Taylor, Bud Cort, Seu Jorge, Robyn Cohen, Waris Ahluwalia, Niels Koizumi, Pawel Wdowczak, Matthew Gray Gubel and Seymour Cassel. Screenplay by Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach. Directed by Wes Anderson. Distributed by … Continue reading
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