Intolerable Cruelty (Joel & Ethan Coen, 2003)

12Aug11

George Clooney (Miles), Catherine Zeta Jones (Marilyn), Geoffrey Rush (Donovan Donaly). Screenplay by Robert Ramsey, Matthew Stone, Joel Coen & Ethan Coen. Directed by Joel & Ethan Coen. Rating: 12. Running time: 100 minutes. I’m constantly perplexed as to why as moviegoers we feel obliged to cut the Coen brothers so much slack, but I’m […]

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Thank You For Smoking (Jason Reitman, 2005)

06Sep10

Aaron Eckhart (Nick Naylor), Cameron Bright (Joey Naylor), J. K. Simmons (BR), Robert Duvall (Captain), Katie Holmes (Heather Holloway). Screenplay by Jason Reitman. Directed by Jason Reitman. Rating: 15. Running time: 92 minutes. Reitman’s debut effort that looks like it set the tone for his career, Thank You For Smoking succeeds in making a mockery […]

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Traffic (Steven Soderbergh, 2000)

09Jul10

Benicio Del Toro (Javier Rodriguez), Michael Douglas (Robert Wakefield), Catherine Zeta-Jones (Helena Ayala), Don Cheadle (Montel Gordon), Jacob Vargas (Manolo Sanchez). Screenplay by Stephen Gaghan. Directed by Steven Soderbergh. Rating: 18. Running time: 147 minutes. It’s no word of a lie to say that Hollywood has done the drugs genre to death, and I confess […]

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