![]() You don’t need us to tell you how good this movie is just put the bunny back in the box and come listen to us gush over it for 45 minutes. It’s the second entry in Cage’s ‘90s action movie trilogy (after The Rock last episode), and it’s as energizing as it is primal and retrograde. ![]() Sure, it’s got Daddy Cass’ knack for complicated characters and verbose dialogue, but not even Travolta as Wright’s post-cleanup husband in the film’s second half can clean up the mess.īut to soothe the pain, we get to bask in the flowing locks and sweaty wife-beater of Army Ranger-turned-heroic-prisoner in Simon West’s incredibly mercenary Con Air. Starring Sean Penn and Robin Wright Penn as a self-destructive barfly couple torn apart by alcoholism, sexual assault, and madness, which throws in a ten-year time skip and a reformed, remarried Wright a mentally-recovering Penn has to get back. What’s more, we’ve got a very special guest to guide us through: Actor and Blank Check with Griffin and David podcaster extraordinaire Griffin Newman!įirst is She’s So Lovely, a lost John Cassavetes script turned into a schmaltzy, all-too-conventional romantic drama courtesy of son Nick “The Notebook” Cassavetes. More than a cinephile's wink, of course that gentle guide - that influence - is played by Francois Truffaut.Merry Christmas, you filthy animals! To help us usher in a decidedly bizarre yuletide this year, we’re celebrating a fascinating double feature: a bizarre, shambolic Cassavetes family affair and one of the great entries in the Dipshit Film Canon, respectively. Shepherded by another sensitive soul, who spans the globe seeking his own tools of expression and 'blocks' all the people and machinery necessary to communicate, light and sound ultimately combine to bridge a gap between worlds, revealing a higher truth. But it's also the artist's creed - you may suffer, but your work matters, *art* matters. Newman College (1915-18), Capitol House and the Capitol Theatre (1921-24). 2 The show is a spoof of the PBS show Masterpiece Theatre, presenting Disney animated shorts instead of showing dramatic works. In the Fishwick house Griffin was able to realise many of his ideas about. This means something," is everyman's declaration, a reassuring cry to the cosmos that your life matters, *you* matter. Mouseterpiece Theater is an American television show that ran on The Disney Channel that premiered on the channel's launch date on April 18, 1983, and continued with reruns into the 1990s. They comment that they never drew more than the front, and he replies something to the effect that, "You should have tried sculpturing!" Many have had the same vision as Roy, and all were inspired to create something that reflected that vision only Roy was so passionate and persistent that he sought the proper tools to recreate it. Adam Shankman (director), Amy Adams, Griffin Newman, James Marsden. Gotham Comedy Club on West 22nd Street on a recent Sunday. hair just past his ears, was standing, mike in hand, on the small stage of the. I never gave it a second thought before, but it's notable that Roy - already a bit of a dreamer in his model train world, and who early labors unsuccessfully to convince his children that "Pinocchio" is "magic" and a preferable experience to Goofy Golf - successfully navigates around the mountain because he knows the layout better than his two companions. Baumbachs ambitious Don De Lillo adaptation could be the defining drama of the. Griffin Newman, a 12-year-old boy with light brown, wavy. I mean, how many directors and their films has this been / could it be said about?Īnd yet, watching this time, I was struck by Roy Neary's journey from blue collar electric lineman to obsessed artist, chasing the perfect representation of his vision regardless of how it alienates him from his family, friends and co-workers - all of society really. Cast: Freddy Acevedo, Peter Collier, Sean Fletcher Griffin, Neil Tyrone Pritchard, Joe Quintero. He says the movie is about movie-making too, which struck me as a little trite - and cliche - in the moment. Roundabout Theatre Company - Laura Pels Theatre. In the doc that precedes the 40th anniversary release, director Denis Villeneuve suggests the movie is a personal one for Spielberg beyond his obvious fascination with the material.
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