Tag: Rian Johnson

Adrien Brody, Rachel Weisz, and Mark Ruffalo in Rian Johnson's charming fantasy of a con movie 'The Brothers Bloom.'

‘The Brothers Bloom’ on VOD and Blu-ray/DVD

Blu-ray, caper, Comedy, DVD, Have You Seen...?, Streaming Movies, SVOD 09/24/201810/01/2018 Sean Axmaker

The Brothers Bloom (2008), the second feature from Star Wars: The Last Jedi writer/director Rian Johnson, is a con artist comedy as living theater. After the almost color-leached images of his high-school noir Brick (2005), Johnson puts more brightness in his palette and more spring his step for this fantasy about stories and storytelling. In a […]

Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars in the high school neo-noir by Rian Johnson

‘Brick’- High school noir on Netflix

!Featured, Action / Crime, American Independent Cinema, Cult Movies, DVD, film noir, Have You Seen...?, Mystery, Netflix, Streaming Movies, Sundance Winner, SVOD 09/04/201809/04/2018 Sean Axmaker

Brick (2005), the debut feature from Star Trek: The Last Jedi filmmaker Rian Johnson, puts the collected works of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett in a blender with a jigger of teenage melodrama and pours it into a high school mold. Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays things so close to his chest that he’s almost unreadable as […]