Showing posts with label Bill Pullman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bill Pullman. Show all posts

Friday, February 1, 2019

EQUALIZER 2 (2018)



Directed By: Antonie Fuqua 
Written By: Richard Wenk 
Based On Characters Created By: Michael Sloan & Richard Lindheim 
Cinematography By: Oliver Wood 
Editor: Conrad Buff 


Cast: Denzel Washinton, Ashton Sanders, Melissa Leo, Bill Pullman, Pedro Pascal, Orson Bean, Sakina Jeffrey 

Robert McCall serves an unflinching justice for the exploited and oppressed, but how far will he go when that is someone he loves?

Sunday, June 3, 2018

JEFF OF THE CINEFILES & UNFINISHED BUSINESS: HALL OF FAME: FILE #0052: THE LAST SEDUCTION (1994)



Directed By: John Dahl 
Written By: Steve Barancik 
Cinematography By: Jeffrey Jur 
Editor: Eric L. Beason 


Cast: Linda Fiorentino, Peter Berg, Bill Pullman, Bill Nunn, Dean Norris, J.T. Walsh 


Bridget Gregory has a lot going for her: she's beautiful, she's intelligent, she's married to a doctor. But all of this isn't enough, as her husband Clay finds out. After she persuaded him to sell medicinal cocaine to some drug dealers, she takes off with the money, almost a million dollars, and goes undercover in a mid-American small town. Because Clay has to pay off a loan shark who'll otherwise damage him severely, he keeps sending detectives after her, trying to retrieve the money. When Bridget meets Mike Swale, a naive local who is blinded by her beauty and directness, she devises an elaborate, almost diabolical scheme to get rid of Clay once and for all.

BROKEDOWN PALACE (1999)



Directed By: Jonathan Kaplan 
Written By: David Arata 
Story By: David Arata & Adam Fields 
Cinematography By: Newton Thomas Sigel 
Editor: Curtiss Clayton 


Cast: Claire Danes, Kate Beckinsale, Bill Pullman, Lou Diamond Phillips, Jaqueline Kim, John Doe, Tom Amandes, Daniel Lapaine, Aimee Graham, Amanda DeCadent 


Alice and Darlene, best friends, decide to take a trip to Thailand to celebrate high-school graduation. While there, they are befriended by charming Australian rogue Nick Parks. Nick convinces them to take a weekend side trip to Hong Kong, but at the airport, they are busted for smuggling drugs. They are convicted in a show trial and sentenced to 33 years; in desperation, they contact Yankee Hank, an American lawyer based in Thailand who has been reported to be helpful if you've got the cash.

Sunday, May 13, 2018

BATTLE OF THE SEXES (2017)



Directed By: Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris 
 Written By: Simon Beaufoy 
Cinematography By: Linus Sandgren 
Editor: Pamela Martin 


Cast: Steve Carrell, Emma Stone, Bill Pullman, Andrea Riseborough, Natalie Morales, Sarah Silverman, Elisabeth Shue, Martha MacIssac, Alan Cumming, Eric Christian Olsen, Fred Armisen, Mickey Sumner, Wallace Langham, Matt Molloy, Bridey Elliott, Chris Parnell, Mike Vogel, Tom Kenny, Jamey Sheridan 


In the wake of the sexual revolution and the rise of the women's movement, the 1973 tennis match between women's world champion and ex-men's-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs was billed as the BATTLE OF THE SEXES and became one of the most watched televised sports events of all time, reaching 90 million viewers around the world. As the rivalry between King and Riggs kicked into high gear, off-court each was fighting more personal and complex battles. The fiercely private King was not only championing for equality, but also struggling to come to terms with her own sexuality, as her friendship with Marilyn Barnett developed. And Riggs, one of the first self-made media-age celebrities, wrestled with his gambling demons, at the expense of his family and wife Priscilla. Together, Billie and Bobby served up a cultural spectacle that resonated far beyond the tennis court, sparking discussions in bedrooms and boardrooms that continue to reverberate today.

Friday, January 26, 2018

CYMBELINE (2014)



Written & Directed By: Michael Almereyda 
Based On The Play By: William Shakespeare 
Cinematography By: Tim Orr 
Editor: John Scott Cook & Barbara Tulliver 


Cast: Ed Harris, Milla Jovovich, Delroy Lindo, Ethan Hawke, Kevin Corrigan, Penn Badgely, Anton Yelchin, Dakota Johnson, Bill Pullman, John Leguizamo, James Ransone, Vondie Curtis-Hall, J.D. Williams, Spenser Treat Clark 

 A gritty story of a take-no-prisoners war between dirty cops and an outlaw biker gang. A drug kingpin is driven to desperate measures. You would need a big name cast to keep the audiences interest. Unless you have Shakespeare purist fans. As there is no real style and feels closed in and claustrophobic

Friday, January 12, 2018

A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN (1992)

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Directed By: Penny Marhshall 
Written By: Lowell Ganz & Babaloo Mandel 
Story By: Kim Wilson & Kelly Candaele 
Cinematography By: Miroslav Ondricek 
Editor: Adam Bernardi & George Bowers 
Music By: Hans Zimmer 


Cast: Geena Davis, Tom Hanks, Lori Petty, Rosie O’Donnell, Madonna, Bitty Schram, David Strathairn, Garry Marshall, Jon Lovitz, Ann Cusack, Anne Ramsay, Megan Cavanagh, Bill Pullman, Janet Jones, Tea Leoni, 


Two sisters join the first female professional baseball league and struggle to help it succeed amidst their own growing rivalry.