Billy Crudup

Almost Famous

January 19, 2011 // 0 Comments

"Almost Famous" did not make a huge splash at the box office when it first arrived 2000, but Cameron Crowe's film has proven neatly that it was simply too cool for theaters and instead needed the proper environment, meaning people's [...]

Public Enemies

November 30, 2009 // 0 Comments

Like most movie fans, I love Michael Mann, a creative force who has written, directed and produced many movies that have held audiences captive. Whether he's taking on an epic project like "The Last Of The Mohicans," a purely political [...]

Watchmen

July 16, 2009 // 0 Comments

A number of years ago, someone recommended Alan Moore's "Watchmen" to me with the stipulation that is was the best and most mature graphic novel ever. I read it and I did not like it. If "mature" means convoluted and hard to [...]

Mission: Impossible: III

December 1, 2006 // 0 Comments

Hot on the heels of his Academy Award win for "Capote", Philip Seymour Hoffman leaps into the action genre by becoming a sadistic weapons dealer in the third installment of the "Mission Impossible" franchise. Having slightly higher [...]

Charlotte Gray

July 15, 2002 // 0 Comments

Based on the novel by Sebastian Faulks and directed by Gillian Armstrong, the World War Two drama ’Charlotte Gray’ is a film with much potential. Full of sweeping vistas and heartfelt performances, the movie looks and sounds grand but is ultimately [...]