FauxNixon

Paul W.S. Anderson is not a director known for producing artistic films and this is no exception, but what he does deliver in Event Horizon is one of the most original and terrifying horror movies of the 1990s. Starring Laurence Fishburne as Captain Miller, Sam Neill as Dr. William Weir, Kathleen Quinlan as Peters, [...]

The Last King of Scotland is the story of Idi Admin (Forest Whitaker), the leader who came to power in Uganda in a coup in the 1970s.  But the story is told through the eyes of Dr. Nicholas Garrigan (James McAvoy) who is bored with his life in Scotland and decides to go and see [...]

Posts for GreatDirectorsGreat Directors: David FincherGreat Directors: Jean-Pierre JeunetGreat Directors: Wes AndersonGreat Directors: Darren AronofskyGreat Directors: Steven Soderbergh The fifth entry in my Great Directors series profiles Steven Soderberg best known for his work with for his work with Ocean’s Eleven and its sequels and Erin Brokovich.  He was born January 14, 1963, in Goergia, [...]

For all those pining away at this site and wondering when the next update will come, my answer is soon.  I have been on a week or so vacation, and just scheduled some posts in advance to keep things going.  I am now working on the next edition of the Great Directors series, so stay [...]

The Limey is a 1999 Steven Soderbergh-directed, Lem Dobbs-written crime thriller in the neo-noir style, but with drastically different, carefully fragmented editing that gives the film a wonderfully novel feel and imparts the meaning of what is being said or done in a much different way than the Hollywood staple method of simply splicing things [...]

#08 - Will Hunting, GOOD WILL HUNTING [1997] “Why shouldn’t I work for the NSA? That’s a tough one, but I’ll give it a shot. Say I’m working at NSA. Somebody puts a code on my desk, something nobody else can break. So I take a shot at it and maybe I break it. And I’m [...]

#03 - THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST [1988] “I am here to set fire to the world!” Martin Scorsese directed this adaption of Nikos Kazantzakis’ controversial 1953 novel that is notable for the scandal it caused as well as for its bizarre casting that included Willem Dafoe as Jesus, Barbara Hershey as Mary Magdalene, Harvey Keitel [...]

Paul Thomas Anderson was allowed to make Magnolia only after the commercial success of his previous film: Boogie Nights.  Anderson was given free reign, or as close to it as a Hollywood studio would ever get, to complete his project which is deeply spiritual and explores the lives of people in nine different, but connected, [...]