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Posts Tagged "Andrew Niccol"

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Good Kill **** (2014, Ethan Hawke, January Jones, Zoë Kravitz, Bruce Greenwood) – Movie Review

Ethan Hawke stars as Tom Egan, a Las Vegas-based fighter pilot turned drone pilot who fights the Taliban by remote control for 12 hours a day, then goes home to the suburbs and feuds with his […]

Apr, 09

Simone [S1m0ne] *** (2002, Al Pacino, Catherine Keener, Rachel Roberts) – Classic Movie Review 1790

Writer-director Andrew Niccol’s bright 2002 fantasy comedy drama S1m0ne provides an excellent vehicle for Al Pacino as a failing film-maker called Viktor Taransky who constructs a ‘synthespian’. Taransky’s film is endangered when his star walks off, […]

Oct, 31

The Truman Show ***** (1998, Jim Carrey, Ed Harris, Laura Linney, Noah Emmerich, Natascha McElhone) – Classic Movie Review 235

Jim Carrey excels himself as Truman Burbank, a pleasant young insurance salesman and adjuster living in an ideal seaside town, in director Peter Weir’s brilliant, impeccably made 1998 fantasy comedy drama film The Truman Show. […]

Sep, 09

Gattaca **** (1997, Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Jude Law) – Classic Movie Review 226

It’s the near-distant future. Bookish hero Vincent Freeman (Ethan Hawke) overcomes his physical frailties like his weak heart and poor eyesight by taking on the characteristics of a foreign superman Jerome Morrow (Jude Law) who’s […]

Sep, 06

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