Wild Target review
The new Jonathan Lynn movie, starring Bill Nighy, Emily Blunt, Martin Freeman and Rupert Grint, now on DVD. Check out my review here at The Coast.Read More
Monthly Archives: October 2011
Thompson on Hollywood: “Reverse Shot 30”
This is some fascinating film writing: Assessing 30 great directors by their "worst" movies. I haven't read all the essays, but I did read the piece on Wes Anderson's Steve Zissou and The Life Aquatic, a picture I consider to be his best. Even as I wildly disagreed with the author's assessment, I enjoyed reading…Read More
Contagion review
Directed by Steven Soderbergh | Written by Scott Z. Burns | 106 min | Netflix I've read that Soderbergh's intent with this virus thriller was to make a film akin to producer/director Irwin Allen's disaster movies of the 1970s, which included The Poseidon Adventure, The Towering Inferno and The Swarm. The template of those pictures…Read More