Sam Mendes followed up his Oscar-winning ‘American Beauty’ with a dark, Depression-era gangster drama costarring Paul Newman and Jude Law.
Tag: Jennifer Jason Leigh
Quentin Tarantino’s ‘The Hateful Eight’ on Netflix and Showtime
The Hateful Eight, the eighth feature by Quentin Tarantino, is something strange and audacious even for a filmmaker whose films are rarely short of either. It’s a vivid widescreen western epic that runs nearly three hours yet plays like a chamber piece, largely contained within the intimate quarters of a stagecoach stopover during a blizzard […]
Ben Stiller is ‘Greenberg’ on Netflix
In Greenberg (2010), Ben Stiller delivers the youngest curmudgeon in the movies. Roger Greenberg is a fortysomething guy recovering from a nervous breakdown and avoiding confronting the mid-life crisis he’s been tangling with since his twenties, apparently. Noah Baumbach, directing from a story developed with his wife, Jenifer Jason Leigh, is a shrewd student of […]