For someone who supposedly "retired" from the movie business in 2006 to concentrate on working behind the scenes of the industry, French film icon Luc Besson seems more busy than ever. Granted, he's not directing much, but his resume over...... more »
FilmCritic entries tagged "Lennie James"
Paul Haggis has spent much of his screenwriting and directing career volleying between serious-minded drama and pulpy thrills, sometimes in the same movie. The Next Three Days, which Haggis wrote and directed, is a more conscious attempt to bridge that...... more »
Jericho certainly didn't go wanting for ambition. Episode one drops nuclear bombs on U.S. soil, stranding the members of the Kansas town of Jericho in darkness and confusion, fearing for nuclear winter and oblivious to what's just happened. Over the...... more »
Prison flick meets musical comedy in this oddball conflagration of genres, a British feel-good flick that just so happens to be the follow-up film director Peter Cattaneo made after The Full Monty. Four years went by, Cattaneo's name became all...... more »
Madonna's new husband, Guy Ritchie, couldn't have timed his recent marriage any better. Intentional or not, it came a mere week before the opening of his new film Snatch, the follow-up to his Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels. With...... more »
I'm not going to try and pretend I know what director Sam Miller was going for with this movie, a perversely asinine look at an off-the-books hiring of Pete Postlethwaite and crew to paint the power line towers in a...... more »