The Big Lebowski (1998) Review
The Big Lebowski (1998) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A Raymond Chandler plot handed to a man with no interest in solving it. Failed on release, found its people later, and spawned a festival and something…
Steve Buscemi worked as a New York City firefighter for four years before acting and returned to volunteer at Ground Zero after September 11, working anonymous twelve-hour shifts.
On screen he specialises in men who talk too much and die badly, in Fargo, Reservoir Dogs and Con Air, and the woodchipper is probably the most remembered thing in his filmography.
Ghost World and Trees Lounge, which he wrote and directed, show what he does with a lead, and both are considerably sadder than the persona suggests.
Boardwalk Empire gave him a late leading run and won him a Golden Globe.
David HuddlestonThe Big Lebowski (1998) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A Raymond Chandler plot handed to a man with no interest in solving it. Failed on release, found its people later, and spawned a festival and something…
Jack HustonBoardwalk Empire (2010-2014) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. The first three seasons are in my top ten of anything ever put on a screen. Then it degrades, badly. Watch to the end of season three and…
Chris PennSeven men in suits in a warehouse. Reservoir Dogs is Quentin Tarantino's 1992 American indie crime film and the director's debut feature.
Bruce WillisTarantino's 1994 anthology crime film. The film that made indie a commercial proposition.
Billy CrystalThe 10+ rating is honest evaluation. Pete Docter directing his feature debut.
Frances McDormandFargo is one of the best American films of the 1990s and one of the most distinctive achievements in the Coen Brothers filmography. The two cowrote the screenplay.
Ben AffleckArmageddon is Michael Bay's most complete expression of Michael Bay: maximum volume, minimum coherence, emotional manipulation deployed at maximum intensi. The scientific inaccuracies in Armageddon are not the casual inaccuracies of a film that chose story over accuracy.
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