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Posts Tagged "Philip Seymour Hoffman"
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God’s Pocket *** (2014, Philip Seymour Hoffman, John Turturro, Christina Hendricks, Eddie Marsan, Richard Jenkins, Caleb Landry Jones) – Movie Review
Philip Seymour Hoffman stars in his penultimate completed feature God’s Pocket (2014) as Philadelphia debt collector Mickey Scarpato, whose crazy, thoroughly dislikeable, racist stepson Leon (Caleb Landry Jones) is killed at work in what his […]
Along Came Polly *** (2004, Ben Stiller, Jennifer Aniston, Debra Messing, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Alec Baldwin, Hank Azaria, Bryan Brown) – Classic Movie Review 1320
Writer-director John Hamburg’s amiable enough 2004 romantic comedy has a super-good cast to get over its bumps and make it work. Risk assessor Reuben Feffer (Ben Stiller) dumps his new wife Lisa (Debra Messing) after […]
State and Main (2000, William C Macy, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Sarah Jessica Parker, Alec Baldwin) – Classic Film Review 1122
Writer-director David Mamet’s known for his rather egg-heady plays and movies, but here in 2000 he tackles an easy-going, old-style satire of film-making, film folk and the movie business, which is far more entertaining than penetrating or […]
Twister **** (1996, Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton, Philip Seymour Hoffman) – Classic Movie Review 996
In director Jan (Speed) de Bont’s breezy 1996 action-adventure thriller/ disaster movie, the main stars are Industrial Light and Magic’s spectacular special visual effects (though they lost out to those for Independence Day at the […]
Nobody’s Fool **** (1994, Paul Newman, Bruce Willis, Jessica Tandy) – Classic Movie Review 872
Writer-director Robert Benton’s small but perfectly formed 1994 film Nobody’s Fool landed Paul Newman with a deserved Best Actor Oscar nomination for his sterling turn as Sully Sullivan, an ageing small-town construction worker who has a […]
Scent of a Woman ***** (1992, Al Pacino, Chris O’Donnell, James Rebhorn, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Gabrielle Anwar) – Classic Movie Review 800
In producer-director Martin Brest’s entertainingly sentimental 1992 epic comedy drama Scent of a Woman, Al Pacino gives a glorious show-stopping performance that runs the gamut from funny via sad to tough in turns, winning his […]
Synecdoche, New York **** (2008, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samantha Morton, Michelle Williams, Catherine Keener, Hope Davis, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Dianne Wiest) – Classic Movie Review 799
Philip Seymour Hoffman gives a tour-de-force as Caden Cotard, a terminally ill theatre director who struggles with his work and his women. Offered a grant, he decides to turn his life into art, and to […]