Tag: Tommy Lee Jones
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Criminal (**1/2) Good, but sometimes horrible
It’s not often one goes to a Gary Oldman film and ends up preferring anyone else’s performance.
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Ad Astra (**1/2) Slip Sliding Away
How do you make space pirates boring? Never let us see their faces, that’s how.
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Just Getting Started (*) is an early retirement
#justgettingstarted I don’t think this was scripted. I don’t even think it was improvised. I am pretty sure it was just boredom. See this film only if you can’t live without seeing Russo in everything.
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Jason Bourne (**1/2): It all ends tonight…until the next movie
“This is not like Bond. We aren’t just changing locales, women and suits here. It’s not as gadgetty or as funny as the Mission:Impossible films became after the 2nd one, either. While those film franchises used the intensity of the Bourne franchise to catapult into something better, Damon and Greengrass took the reputation well earned…
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The Family: Not everything’s alright
The Family – 2013 Director Luc Besson Starring Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer, Dianna Agron, Tommy Lee Jones, John D’Leo Writers Besson and Michael Caleo Fading are the days in which Robert DeNiro commanded the screen. The script of The Family goes so far as to describe his use of the “F”-word at the expense of actually seeing him use it.…
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I Don’t Have A Vote: Cool Papa E thinks the 85th Oscars Suck
I have to admit it. Once I found out it wasn’t happening, I wasn’t interested, The list of nominees arrived on January 10 and Samuel L. Jackson’s name was not among them. There is no good reason for it, either. Within the list of nominees, even the guy from his own movie, Christoph Waltz, didn’t…
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Hope Springs a subtle reminder of the need to grow together
Hope Springs – 2012 Director David Frankel Starring Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones, Steve Carell, Jean Smart, Mimi Rogers, Elisabeth Shue, Ben Rappaport, Marin Ireland, Becky Ann Baker Screenplay Vanessa Taylor I always thought that separate beds in a marriage was a fiction of television. Of course Ozzie and Harriet could not be seen in the sack together.…
Ebert Did It Better: Gasbag Reviews 