Showing posts with label Billy Bob Thornton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Billy Bob Thornton. Show all posts

Friday, April 24, 2020

PUSHING TIN (1999)





Directed By: Mike Newell 
Written By: Glen Charles & Les Charles 
Based On An Article By: Darcy Frey 
 Cinematography: Gale Tattersall 
Editor: Jon Gregory 

Cast: John Cusack, Angelina Jolie, Cate Blanchett, Billy Bob Thornton, Vicki Lewis, Jake Weber, Kurt Fuller, Matt Ross, Mike O’Malley 


Nick and the other boys working the hotspot of air traffic control in New York are impressed with themselves, to say the least. They thrive on the no-room-for-error, fast-paced job and let it infect their lives. The undisputed king of pushing tin, "The Zone" Falzone, rules his workplace and his wedded life with the same short-attention span that gets planes where they need to be in the nick of time. That is, until Russell Bell, a new transfer with a reputation for recklessness but a record of pure perfection shatters the tensely-held status quo. The game of one-upmanship between the two flies so high as to lead Nick into Russell's bed with his wife. His sanity slipping just as fast as his hold on #1, Cusack's controller is thrown out-of-control when Thornton's wanderer quietly leaves town. Nick must now find a way to regain his sanity and repair his marriage before he breaks down completely.

Saturday, September 14, 2019

THE INFORMERS (2008)



Directed By: Gregor Jordan 
Written By: Bret Easton Ellis & Nicholas Jarecki 
Based on the Novel By: Bret Easton Ellis 
Cinematography: Petra Korner 
Editor: Robert Brakey 

Cast: Jon Foster, Billy Bob Thornton, Kim Basinger, Amber Heard, Winona Ryder, Lou Taylor Pucci, Chris Issak, Mickey Rourke, Brad Renfro, Rhys Ifans, Angela Sarafyn, Katy Mixon, Theo Rossi, Jessica Stroup 

One week in L.A. in 1983, featuring movie executives, rock stars, a vampire and other morally challenged characters in adventures laced with sex, drugs and violence.

Friday, March 9, 2018

JEFF OF THE CINEFILES & UNFINISHED BUSINESS: HALL OF FAME: FILE #0051:THE MAN WHO WASN'T THERE (2001)



Written & Directed By: Joel Coen & Ethan Coen 
Cinematography By: Roger Deakins 
Editor: Joel Coen &Ethan Coen (Under the name Roderick Jaymes) &Tricia Cooke 


Cast: Billy Bob Thornton, Frances McDormand, Scarlett Johanson, Michael Badalucco, James Gandolfini, Richard Jenkins, Jon Polito, Tony Shalhoub, Katherine Borowitz, Christopher McDonald 

1949, Santa Rosa, California. A laconic, chain-smoking barber with fallen arches tells a story of a man trying to escape a humdrum life. It's a tale of suspected adultery, blackmail, foul play, death, Sacramento city slickers, racial slurs, invented war heroics, shaved legs, a gamine piano player, aliens, and Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. Ed Crane cuts hair in his in-law's shop; his wife drinks and may be having an affair with her boss, Big Dave, who has $10,000 to invest in a second department store. Ed gets wind of a chance to make money in dry cleaning. Blackmail and investment are his opportunity to be more than a man no one notices. Settle in the chair and listen.

Thursday, January 7, 2016

THE BAYTOWN OUTLAWS (2012)



Directed By: Barry Battles 
Written By: Barry Battles & Griffin Hood 
Cinematography By: David MacFarland 
Editor: Sean Valla 


Cast: Clayne Crawford, Travis Fimmel, Daniel Cudmore, Eva Longoria, Billy Bob Thornton, Andre Braugher, Michael Rapaport, Zoe Bell, Agnes Bruckner, Natalie Martinez, Brea Grant, Paul Wesley, Julio Oscar Mechoso

Saturday, December 19, 2015

AN ALAN SMITHEE FILM: BURN HOLLYWOOD BURN (1997)



Directed By: Arthur Hiller (As Alan Smithee) 
Written By: Joe Esztherhas 
Cinematography By: Reynaldo Villalobos 
Editor: L. James Langlois 


Cast: Eric Idle, Ryan O’Neal, Richard Jeni, Sylvester Stallone, Whoopi Goldberg, Jackie Chan, Chuck D, Coolio, Sandra Bernhard, Harvey Weinstein, Leslie Stefanson, MC Lyte, Stephen Tobolowsky, Jim Piddock, Suli McCullough, Naomi Campbell, Robert Evans, Robert Shapiro, Shane Black, Billy Bob Thornton, Dominick Dunne, Joe Eszterhas, Larry King, Peter Bart

Saturday, March 28, 2015

SCHOOL FOR SCOUNDRELS (2006)



Directed By: Todd Phillips 
Written By: Todd Phillips & Scot Armstrong 
Based on the original 1960 Screenplay By: Hal E. Chester & Patricia Moyes 
Based On The Novel “SCHOOL FOR SCOUNDRELS OR HOW TO WIN WITHOUT ACTUALLY CHEATING” By: Stephen Potter 
Cinematography By: Jonathan Brown 
Editor: Leslie Jones & Dan Schalk 


Cast: Jon Heder, Billy Bob Thornton, Jacinda Barrett, Sarah Silverman, Michael Clarke Duncan, David Cross, Ben Stiller, Todd Lousio, Dan Folger, Jon Glaser, Matt Walsh, Paul Scheer, Horatio Sanz, DeRay Davis

Saturday, February 15, 2014

FASTER (2010)



Directed By: George Tillman Jr. 
Written By: Joe & Tony Gayton 
Cinematography By: Michael Grady 
Editor: Dick Westervelt 
Music By: Clint Mansell 

 Cast: Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Billy Bob Thornton, Carla Gugino, Tom Berneger, Courtney Gains, Maggie Grace, Mike Epps, Xander Berkley, Moon Bloodgood, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Jennifer Carpenter, Oliver Jackson-Cohen

Friday, July 19, 2013

THE BAD NEWS BEARS (2005)














Directed By: Richard Linklater 
Written By: Glenn Ficarra & John Requa 
Based On The 1976 Screenplay By: Bill Lancaster 
Cinematography By: Rogier Stoffers 
Editor: Sandra Adair 

Cast: Billy Bob Thornton, Marcia Gay Harden, Greg Kinnear

Sunday, September 25, 2011

U-TURN (1997)


Directed By: Oliver Stone
Written By: John Ridley; Based on his book “Stray Dogs”
Cinematography By: Robert Richardson
Editor: Hank Corwin & Thomas J. Nordberg

Cast: Sean Penn, Jennifer Lopez, Nick Nolte, Billy Bob Thornton, Claire Danes, Powers Boothe, Joaquin Phoenix, Julie Hagerty, Jon Voight, Brent Briscoe, Liv Tyler, Abraham Benrubi

Monday, June 28, 2010

THE INFORMERS (2009)




CAST: Billy Bob Thornton, Jon Foster, Amber Heard, Chris Issak, Brad Renfro, Rhys Ifans, Mickey Rourke, Kim Basinger, Winona Ryder, Lou Taylor Pucci, Austin Nichols, Katy Mixon, Jessica Stroup

Directed by: Gregor Jordan
Written By: Nicholas Jarecki & Bret Easton Ellis
Based on the novel by: Bret Easton Ellis
Cinematography By: Petra Korner
Editor: Robert Brakey