Directed by Harold Ramis The Ice Harvest is a crime movie that begins after the crime has been committed. The co-conspirators are Charlie (John Cusack) and Vic (Billy Bob Thornton), and they've just stolen a couple million dollars from a man sure to kill them should he find out. It's Christmas Eve, and the two agree … Continue reading The Ice Harvest (2005)
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The Grifters (1990)
Directed by Stephen Frears What a strange little ride. I think I love The Grifters purely because of how odd, twisted and inspired it is. The 1990 film feels like a colorized version of something from the 1940s, complete with the film noir tropes, femme fatales, Elmer Bernstein music, misdirection, corrupted souls and mistaken identities. The … Continue reading The Grifters (1990)
High Fidelity (2000)
Directed by Stephen Frears High Fidelity has a similar energy to another John Cusack classic, 1989's Say Anything... except that this time Cusack plays an absolute jerk, self-loathing, self-centered and, for some reason, self-assured. Rob Gordon (Cusack) owns his own record shop somewhere in a hip area of Chicago, and while to me that smells like … Continue reading High Fidelity (2000)
Say Anything… (1989)
Directed by Cameron Crowe Cameron Crowe’s Say Anything… is almost anarchic in its sincerity. It’s earnest, direct and yet doesn’t cut corners with its love story or belittle the audience’s intelligence. We meet a young man, Lloyd Dobbler (John Cusack) on the fringes of the high school social hierarchy, and his love interest, Diane Court … Continue reading Say Anything… (1989)
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