THE BRAVE ONE
Running Time 119 minutes
Directed by Neil Jordan
Written by Roderick Taylor, Bruce A. Taylor, Cynthia Mort
Starring Jodie Foster, Terrence Howard
Neil Jordan’s The Brave One, from a screenplay by Roderick Taylor, Bruce A. Taylor and Cynthia Mort, based on a story by Roderick Taylor and Read More
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Brad Silberling’s City of Angels , from a screenplay by Dana Stevens, based on the Wim Wenders film Wings of Desire (1987), strains to achieve the enchantingly sublime, but ends up sinking to the depressingly ridiculous. I must confess, however, that angels (with or without wings) in the movies have always made me nervous. Curiously, Read More
