Showing posts with label Jeffrey Wright. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jeffrey Wright. Show all posts

Friday, May 15, 2020

HOLD THE DARK (2018)


Directed By: Jeremy Saulnier 
Written By: Macon Blair 
Based On The Book By: William Giraldi 
Cinematography: Magnus Nordenhof Jonck 
Editor: Julia Bloch 


Cast: Jeffrey Wright, James Badge Dale, Alexander Skarsgard, Riley Keough, Beckham crawford, Anabel Kutay, Julian Black Antelope 


Retired naturalist and wolf expert Russell Core journeys to the edge of civilization in northern Alaska at the pleading of Medora Slone, a young mother whose son was killed by a pack of wolves. As Core attempts to help Medora track down the wolves who took her son, a strange and dangerous relationship develops between the two lonely souls. But when Medora's husband Vernon returns home from the Iraq War, the news of his child's death ignites a violent chain of events. As local cop Donald Marium races to stop Vernon's vengeful rampage, Core is forced on a perilous odyssey into the heart of darkness.

Wednesday, December 25, 2019

THE LAUNDROMAT (2019)



Directed By: Steven Soderbergh 
Written By: Scott Z. Burns 
Based on the Book “Secrecy World: Inside The Panama Papers Investigation Of Illicit Money Networks and The Global Elite” By: Jake Bernstein 
Cinematography: Peter Andrews 
Editor: Mary Ann Bernard 


Cast: Meryl Streep, Antonio Banderas, Gary Oldman, Jeffrey Wright, David Schwimmer, James Cromwell, Sharon Stone, Robert Patrick, Larry Wilmore, Rosalind Chao, Matthias Schoenaerts, Nonso Anozie, Miracle Washington, Jessica Allain, Jay Paulson, Melissa Rauch, Will Forte, Chris Parnell 


A widow investigates an insurance fraud, chasing leads to a pair of Panama City law partners exploiting the world's financial system. It feels like this films almost a lesson with dramatization added. Based on the Panama papers. It seems like Meryl Streep is the audience surrogate in a buerocratic international video game. Where through her experience we learn all about this situation really about fraud and international banking.

Saturday, December 12, 2015

CRIME + PUNISHMENT IN SUBURBIA (2000)



Directed By: Rob Schmidt 
Written By: Larry Gross 
Cinematography By: Bobby Bukowski 
Editor: Gabriel Wyre 


Cast: Monica Keena, Vincent Kartheiser, James DeBello, Ellen Barkin, Jeffrey Wright, Michael Ironside, Conchata Ferrell, Nicki Aycox, Lucinda Jenney, Bonnie Somerville, Marshall R. Teague 


Saturday, February 14, 2015

THE INEVITABLE DEFEAT OF MISTER AND PETE (2013)



Directed By: George Tillman Jr. 
Written By: Michael Starrbury 
Cinematography By: Reed Morano 
Editor: Jamie Kirkpatrick 

Cast: Skylan Brooks, Ethan Dizon, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Jennifer Hudson, Jordin Sparks, Anthony Mackie, Jeffrey Wright, Julito McCullum

Monday, June 9, 2014

ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE (2014)



Written & Directed By: Jim Jarmusch 
Cinematography By: Yorick Le Saux 
Editor: Affonso Goncalves 

Cast: Tilda Swinton, Tom Hiddleston, Mia Wasikowska, Jeffrey Wright, Anton Yelchin, John Hurt

A depressed musician reunites with his lover, though their romance - which has already endured several centuries - is disrupted by the arrival of an uncontrollable younger sister.

Saturday, April 9, 2011

SOURCE CODE (2011)


Directed By: Duncan Jones
Written By: Ben Ripley
Cinematography By: Don Burgess
Editor: Paul Hirsch

Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farminga, Jeffrey Wright, Russell Peters


Army Captain Colter Stevens finds himself working on a special program where his consciousness can be inserted into another human being. The only catch is can only be there for 8 minutes at any given time. That morning, a bomb exploded on a commuter train just outside Chicago. He occupies the body of teacher going to work on that train and is confused as to what he is doing or why he is there as his last memory is of flying his helicopter on a combat mission in Afghanistan. Those in charge of the program explain to him that there is a bomb on the train, and that he must locate it. More importantly, he must identify the bomber as another bombing is expected later that day. He is also told however that he cannot change the past and can only gather information. As he develops a liking for his traveling companion Christina, he sets out to test that theory