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Everest **½ (2015, Jason Clarke, Josh Brolin, Jake Gyllenhaal, Emily Watson, Keira Knightley, Sam Worthington, Robin Wright) – Movie Review

Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur (The Deep, Two Guns) tells the old, old tale of man going up against mountain and coming up against a huge obstacle. But what is the story? His 1996 real-life scenario (in a […]

Sep, 17

Southpaw *** (2015, Jake Gyllenhaal, Rachel McAdams, Forest Whitaker, Oona Laurence, 10 Cent, Naomie Harris, Miguel Gomez, Beau Knapp) – Movie Review

Jake Gyllenhaal lost 30lb to play his role in last year’s outstanding Nightcrawler, and now he’s added 45lb of muscle to play boxer Billy Hope in director Antoine Fuqua’s boxing movie. Jake spent six hours a […]

Jul, 23

Accidental Love ** (2015, Jessica Biel, Jake Gyllenhaal, James Marsden, Catherine Keener) – Movie Review

The story behind Accidental Love is perhaps more interesting than the movie itself. American Hustle director David O Russell filmed this screwball political satire back in 2008, but it hit finance problems and he and […]

Jun, 18

Enemy ***½ (2013, Jake Gyllenhaal, Mélanie Laurent, Sarah Gadon) – Movie Review

Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Adam Bell, a rather sombre Toronto area history college professor stuck in a routine with his comfortably dull and repetitive job and quite boring live-in girlfriend called Mary (Mélanie Laurent). But, one night, […]

Dec, 19

The Good Girl **** (2002, Jennifer Aniston, Jake Gyllenhaal, John C Reilly, Deborah Rush) – Classic Movie Review 1742

  Friends’ Jennifer Aniston grabs a welcome change of pace as Justine Last, a supermarket worker bored of her dead-end job, lazy husband Phil (John C Reilly) and small-town life finds herself drawn to a […]

Oct, 04

Moonlight Mile **** (2002, Jake Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman, Susan Sarandon) – Classic Movie Review 1736

Co-producer/writer/director Brad Silberling’s 2002 drama stars Jake Gyllenhaal as Joe Nast. The young man’s fiancée dies, leaving him distraught and forced to help console her fragile parents, Josephine and Ben Floss (Susan Sarandon, Dustin Hoffman) […]

Oct, 03

Nightcrawler ***** (2014, Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Riz Ahmed, Bill Paxton) – Movie Review

Dear Lou Bloom, You did real good! Congratulations to you and Video News Productions for your excellent Nightcrawler footage. Please give my best to Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Riz Ahmed and Bill Paxton for their fine work […]

Oct, 01

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