The most successful invigoration of a cinematic franchise since Batman Begins, Casino Royale offers a new Bond identity. Based on the Ian Fleming novel that introduced Agent 007 into a Cold War world, Casino Royale is the most brutal and viscerally exciting James Bond film since Sean Connery left Her Majesty's Secret Service. Meet the new Bond; not the same as the old Bond. ...
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home EntertainmentStarring: Daniel Craig, Judi Dench, Eva Green, Claudio Santamaria, Jeffrey WrightDirected By: Martin Campbell
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home EntertainmentStarring: Mads Mikkelsen, Judi Dench, Jeffrey Wright, Jesper Christensen, Giancarlo GianniniDirected By: Martin Campbell
Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Claudio Santamaria, Jesper Christensen, Judi Dench, Jeffrey Wright
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home EntertainmentStarring: Daniel Craig, Claudio Santamaria, Jesper Christensen, Judi Dench, Jeffrey WrightDirected By: Martin Campbell
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home Ent. UKStarring: Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Mads Mikkelsen, Judi Dench, Jeffrey WrightDirected By: Martin Campbell
Tony Kushner's prize-winning play Angels in America became the defining US theatrical event of the 1990s, an astonishing mix of philosophy, politics, and vibrant gay soap opera that summed up the Reagan era for an entire generation of theatre-goers. Post-9/11 would seem to be too late for a film version--philosophy and politics don't always age well--but this 2003 HBO adaptation, ably ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Al Pacino, Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson, Mary-Louise Parker, Jeffrey WrightDirected By: Mike Nichols
Syriana is an oil-based soap opera set against the world of global oil cartels. It is to the oil industry as Traffic was to the drug trade (no surprise, since writer/director Stephen Gaghan wrote the screenplay to Traffic): a sprawling attempt to portray the vast political, business, social, and personal implications of a societal addiction, in this case, oil. A major merger ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: George Clooney, Amanda Peet, Matt Damon, Jeffrey Wright, Chris CooperDirected By: Stephen Gaghan
Soul Food is the kind of movie that seems to have been blessed throughout its low-budget production and it has got a quality of warmth and charm that fits perfectly with its authentic drama about a large African-American family in Chicago. Twenty-eight-year-old writer-director George Tillman Jr. drew autobiographical inspiration from his upbringing in Milwaukee, and on a well-spent $6.5 ...
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Home EntertainmentStarring: Vanessa Williams, Vivica A. Fox, Nia Long, Michael Beach, Mekhi PhiferDirected By: George Tillman Jr.
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Bryce Dallas Howard, Paul Giamatti, Jeffrey Wright, Bob Balaban, Freddy RodriguezDirected By: M. Night Shyamalan
In his writing and directorial debut, Julian Schnabel's film Basquiat depicts the life of graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, aka SAMO, and the turbulent period from the late 1970s to 1988, as his life was catapulted into fame and notoriety. As Jean-Michel's work gained favourable attention from New York's elite art community, he went from a street punk living in a cardboard box to the ...
Manufacturer: Pathe DistributionStarring: Jeffrey Wright, Michael Wincott, Benicio Del Toro, Claire Forlani, David BowieDirected By: Julian Schnabel
Don Johnston is an empty man. He's not short of money, thanks to his considerable success with computers, but he is short of emotion, and very much alone. Yet as the latest woman in his life exits stage left, he receives a mysterious note. In it, he learns of a son he never knew he had, with no clues whatsoever to his identity. And so begins Broken Flowers. Primarily a road movie, it ...
Manufacturer: Momentum PicturesStarring: Bill Murray, Jeffrey Wright, Sharon Stone, Tilda Swinton, Julie DelpyDirected By: Jim Jarmusch
