Margaret Written by Kenneth Lonergan Directed by Kenneth Lonergan USA, 2011 Having spent six years in purgatory, Margaret was quietly released in one theater in New York and one theater in Los Angeles last weekend. Kenneth Lonergan’s follow-up to his acclaimed debut You Can Count On Me, Margaret was originally filmed in 2005 (and stymied …
Contagion Written by Scott Z. Burns Directed by Steven Soderbergh US, 2011 The big news behind Contagion is its star-studded cast: Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Laurence Fishburne, John Hawkes, Marion Cotillard and Bryan Cranston. While the performances are exceptional, perhaps lost in the name-dropping is director Steven Soderbergh, who navigates skillfully …
“The Coens once again demonstrate why they are among the very few American filmmakers worth anticipating and they hardly disappoint”. True Grit (2010) Directed by Joel & Ethan Coen Cast: Jeff Bridges, Hailee Steinfeld, Josh Brolin and Matt Damon If in some way, No Country for Old Men was about an innocence lost that never …
Variety is reporting that Universal Pictures have green-lit a fourth film in the Bourne franchise tentatively called The Bourne Legacy. Tony Gilroy (the screenwriter for the first three) has been brought on board to pen the script. But Paul Greengrass has stated that he has no interest in returning to the franchise and Matt Damon …
“an adequate addition to the Iraq War films sub-genre, but unfortunately not a particularly memorable one” Green Zone Directed by Paul Greengrass The combat film has a tradition in American cinema almost as storied as the Western. Like many genres of the time, the war film transformed in the 1970’s to compensate for the negative …