Posts Tagged ‘William H. Macy’
Film Review – The Tragedy of Macbeth
“By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes” Equal parts dark, brooding, beautiful, and haunting, The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021) retells William Shakespeare’s doomed tale with striking artistry. “The Scottish Play” has been remade many times before – such as the recent Michael Fassbender/Marion Cotillard vehicle from…
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Film Review – No Sudden Move
No Sudden Move (2021) is a terrific, pulp-noir throwback. It displays tight precision in front of and behind the camera, managing a rollercoaster of a plot. In lesser hands, this could have crumbled into messy incoherence. But in the hands of experienced professionals, it maintains…
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Film Review – The Lie
The distribution deal between Blumhouse and Amazon Studios involves the streaming release of four thrillers in the month of October, labeled “Welcome to The Blumhouse.” The release schedule groups them into pairs. The first two feature the excellent Black Box (2020) and the not so…
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Film Review – Room
Room has been playing to critical acclaim since its September release at the Telluride and Toronto International Film Festivals. I cannot ignore a film that stars Brie Larson anymore since I discovered her performance in Short Term 12 at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Film…
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Film Review – Rudderless
Director William H. Macy‘s Rudderless has a title that opens itself to a lot of bad jokes: “Never has a title and film’s plot been so in sync,” “This film just flows along’” etc. That aside, there are a lot of things that keep this film moving without…
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SIFF Film Review – Trust Me
The movie industry can be a cruel, cutthroat place. Even worse is being a Hollywood agent. It’s a soul crushing, pride swallowing job where your success is predicated on the success of other people. Clark Gregg – who has been lifted into the mainstream as…
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SIFF Interview – Clark Gregg – Trust Me
Spencer interviews writer/director/actor Clark Gregg from the noir comedy Trust Me at SIFF 2014.
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Episode 238 – Steve Buscemi
In honor of the release of The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, Spencer and Greg discuss Steve Buscemi.
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