Written by Larry Cohen Joel Schumacher just couldn’t get out of the way. Given a fairly interesting story and mostly tight screenplay, Phone Booth could have been a tense, sweaty little thriller. Instead, with Schumacher at the helm, the film feels at times like an homage to the more ADD-afflicted films of Tony Scott and […]
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Sidney Lumet, maybe the greatest American filmmaker of the second half of the 20th century, has died at the age of 86. I won’t even try to write an obituary for such a brilliant director. For those of you interested or who need a primer on his life and work, the New York Times has […]
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