Posts tagged "Michael Shannon"

Not long after watching and enjoying See How They Run, I moved on to another period-piece murder mystery film with a sprawling all-star cast that was released towards the end of 2022: David O. Russell’s Amsterdam. Christian Bale and John David Washington star in the film as Burt

When wealthy author Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plumer) is found dead in his home, many of his family members and others in his orbit all seem to have a possible motive.  Enter: detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig), who has been hired to get to the bottom of the whole bloody affair

Well, its title is pretty generic and meaningless but other than that I have little bad to say about The Night Before, the fun and funny new raunchy buddy comedy starring Seth Rogen, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Anthony Mackie. Director Jonathan Levine can pretty much do no wrong in my b

I love Richard Donner’s Superman: The Movie from 1978, and for much of my life I thought Superman II was even better.  (My preference has swung back slightly, in recent years, towards the original film.)  Those two movies were a huge part of my childhood, and more than any Sup