Showing posts with label Starring: John Goodman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Starring: John Goodman. Show all posts

Beyond the Sea (2004)

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Intriguing but flawed biopic of Bobby Darin, written and directed by Kevin Spacey, who also stars as the singer.  It’s a baffling film. The ...

Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009)

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Flawed romantic comedy.  Rebecca Bloomwood (Isla Fisher) is a New York journalist who is addicted to buying fashionable clothes. She ends up...

Trouble with the Curve (2012)

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Baseball-themed drama starring Clint Eastwood as Gus, an elderly talent scout with failing eyesight and a bad temper. Amy Adams plays Mick...

Flight (2012)

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Brilliantly directed by Robert Zemeckis , this drama starts with the absolute terror of an aviation disaster and then gets even more harrowi...

Raising Arizona (1987)

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Unusual comedy drama about a couple who kidnap a quintuplet. Beneath the slapstick humour there’s a real tragedy about a desperate, childles...

The Monuments Men (2014)

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A handful of military misfits go to Germany towards the end of World War II to locate and retrieve fine art stolen and hidden by the Nazis. ...

Argo (2012)

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Superb thriller regarding the real-life events of the so-called “Canadian Caper”.  In November 1979, Iranian extremists stormed the US embas...

Sea of Love (1989)

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Brilliant, noirish thriller. Al Pacino is a New York cop investigating a series of murders. But unfortunately he’s falling in love with th...

Masked and Anonymous (2003)

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An awkward, over-stylised mess. The “plot”, what there is of one, details a future North America in which society has partly broken down. An...

Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)

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I really disliked this Coen Brothers so-called “comedy drama” about a folk singer in New York in 1961. 1. It looks horrible: washed-out a...