
Drama, Film, Spies
Film: A Most Wanted Man
When I first heard Philip Seymour Hoffman would be starring in a movie adaptation of a John le CarrĂ©…
July 28, 2014When I first heard Philip Seymour Hoffman would be starring in a movie adaptation of a John le CarrĂ©…
July 28, 2014Paul Thomas Anderson strikes me as one of those Hollywood auteurs whose early successes led to lack of mitigation…
March 25, 2013A political drama based on a play, The Ides of March (2011) delivers just about what you would expect…
July 30, 2012Ever since the horror of the second installment, I’ve been looking for reasons to stop watching the Mission: Impossible…
January 4, 2012Charlie Wilson’s War (2007) is a curious film, an Aaron Sorkin script largely populated by non-Sorkin-ish actors (with apologies…
August 9, 2010I caught up with Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York (2008) over the weekend. It’s one of those movies I’m…
April 13, 2009