Room (2015) Review
Room (2015) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Emma Donoghue adapted her own novel and kept the one decision that makes it bearable, which is that everything is narrated by a five-year-old who thinks the shed is…
Joan Allen was nominated three times in five years, for Nixon, The Crucible and The Contender, playing women whose public composure is the subject.
Face/Off and the Bourne films gave her commercial work, and Pleasantville gives her a 1950s housewife discovering color, which is a strange and effective performance. She came from Steppenwolf in Chicago and won a Tony for Burn This.
Brie LarsonRoom (2015) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Emma Donoghue adapted her own novel and kept the one decision that makes it bearable, which is that everything is narrated by a five-year-old who thinks the shed is…
Gena RowlandsThe Notebook (2004) rates 6 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. The young romance is a competent, conventional and occasionally irritating class melodrama. The framing story, an old man reading to a woman with dementia who does not know…
Alessandro Nivola1997 John Woo action with Travolta and Nicolas Cage swapping faces as cop and terrorist. Face/Off is John Woo's 1997 American action film and one of the principal entries in both Woo's filmography and the broader 1990s American action canon.
Brian CoxThe Bourne series is one of the most influential American action franchises of the past twenty-five years and the production that basically transformed how mainstream action cinema is shot, edited, and choreographed. Two additional Ludlum novels followed.
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