Tag: Philip Seymour Hoffman

Almost Famous is Cameron Crowe's greatest film, a fictionalized account of his heady days as a teenage music journalist.

Stars and Strikes Forever The Dude is everything an American isn’t supposed to be. He’s a hard drinker – of White Russians, of course. His employment status is unclear, …

Peeta’d Out The second part of Mockingjay – profitable and needless as this two-part tactic may be – comes to Blu-ray during the opening salvos of America’s election season. …

Less hungry An awkward complexity surrounds these money snatching “Part” movies. Where they exist to enrich characters and give them development time – where otherwise impossible in mainstream cinema …

Paul Thomas Anderson's typical style is once again a densely-layered sequence of events that leaves more questions than answers.

This movie was made to win awards and it should succeed in that endeavor.

What's impressive is how little Moneyball needs the game, finding it better suited fed through its weaving characters than to deliver a three-strike out visually.

To say this all happens fast is a bit of an understatement, and it does not necessarily piece itself together well.