LEAVES OF GRASS
RUNNING TIME 105 minutes
WRITTEN AND directed by Tim Blake Nelson
STARRING Edward Norton, Keri Russell, Susan Sarandon, Richard Dreyfuss, Tim Blake Nelson
2 Eyeballs out of 4
Don’t be misled by the title Leaves of Grass. Do not expect literacy, either. This stoner comedy has nothing whatsoever to Read More
American Violet
Running time 103 minutes
Written by Bill Haney
Directed by Tim Disney
Starring Nicole Beharie, Alfre Woodard, Michael O’Keefe, Will Patton, Tim Blake Nelson
It’s rare, I’ll admit, but occasionally a good movie raises its head through the muck and mire and leaves me grateful but shocked with disbelief. Such Read More
There’s something dignified and modest about character actors, especially the ones in Coen brothers films (like the rotund M. Emmet Walsh, William H. Macy, or sad-eyed Steve Buscemi), that makes one think they all live alone in drafty Hell’s Kitchen walk-ups.
But Tim Blake Nelson (from the Coens’ O Brother, Where Art Thou?—he played Read More
If there is one thing worse than a Guy Ritchie movie, it’s a Guy Ritchie movie with Madonna in it. Watching her shriek, pout and snarl her way through his ill-advised and disastrous remake of the 1974 Lina Wertmüller film Swept Away has pretty much driven a spike through the coffin lid of the publicity-besotted Read More
Miguel Arteta’s The Good Girl , from a screenplay by Mike White (who also appears in the film), turns out to be one of the most pleasant surprises of this long, hot, harrowing summer. This is to say that the derisive premises of the movie’s plot and characterizations could have resulted in a sour experience Read More
Tim Blake Nelson was in Australia acting in Terrence Malick’s The Thin Red Line in the summer of 1997 when he got the script for O . An adaptation of Shakespeare’s Othello , the screenplay was set in a modern private high school and featured a black star basketball player named Odin as its central Read More
