Thora Birch, Scarlett Johansson, and Steve Buscemi star in this smart, sly adaptation of the cult comic book from director Terry Zwigoff.
Tag: Bob Balaban
‘Gosford Park’ on VOD and Blu-ray/DVD
In Gosford Park (2002), Robert Altman brings his gift for big, sprawling dramas knit with a fine weave of characters and a massive cast up to the task of filling them up with lives to the Merchant Ivory idiom of the manners and manors of Britain’s upper crust of yesteryear, 1932 to be specific. The […]
‘Show Me a Hero’ on HBO Go and HBO Now
HBO has just given streamers another reason to subscribe to HBO Now. Show Me a Hero, a six-hour miniseries developed by David Simon (The Wire) and William F. Zorzi from the non-fiction book by Lisa Belkin and directed by Paul Haggis (with a subtlety and nuance I didn’t know he had in him), stars Oscar […]