Directed by Craig Gillespie The Finest Hours is an okay but conventional dramatization of the real life rescue of thirty-two workers aboard a sinking oil tanker. It stars Chris Pine doing a possibly accurate but nevertheless distracting Boston accent and Ben Foster doing much the same. In the middle is Casey Affleck playing a more … Continue reading The Finest Hours (2016)
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Lars and the Real Girl (2007)
Directed by Craig Gillespie Lars holds on tightly to a vivid imagination that makes some children seem gifted or creative but which they inevitably let go of overtime. While he blends into society, at least within this small midwestern town, he clings to a delusion that allows him to instill a blow-up sex doll with … Continue reading Lars and the Real Girl (2007)