After a number of years acting in front of the camera, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind marked George Clooney’s directorial debut. Going into the early 2000s, the Kentucky native had never planned to direct a film. Everything changed upon reading Charlie Kaufman’s screenplay. He put in the work when it came to directing and as we all know, it wasn’t a fluke. Clooney had a vision of what sort of film he wanted to make…
"Confessions of a Dangerous Mind – A George Clooney Retrospective"Tag: Maggie Gyllenhaal
Maggie Gyllenhaal steps behind the camera and hits a home run in her feature directorial debut, an adaptation of The Lost Daughter. When it comes to actors stepping behind the camera to direct, there’s no guarantee that it’ll be a good film. Maggie Gyllenhaal has nothing to worry about with her feature directorial debut, which brings the mysterious Elena Ferrante’s novel to the screen. She hits it out of the ballpark! It certainly helps having…
"The Lost Daughter: Maggie Hits A Home Run"
The Dark Knight represents a masterpiece in filmmaking as Christopher Nolan takes the Batman Begins sequel to an entirely new level. After the opening introduces us to the Joker (Heath Ledger), we learn that Bruce Wayne/Batman (Christian Bale), District Attorney Harvey Dent (Harvey Dent), and Lieutenant James Gordon (Gary Oldman) have formed an alliance together. Their mission is to take out Gotham’s criminals. It would be beneficial for Bruce, who would prefer to retire and…
"The Dark Knight: A Comic Book Movie Masterpiece"
Sara Colangelo’s sophomore feature, The Kindergarten Teacher, takes audiences on a wild ride over the course of an hour and a half. Lisa Spinelli (Maggie Gyllenhaal) is a kindergarten teacher and she seems to be at a rather boring place in her career, going as far as telling her assistant (Anna Barynishikov) “to hell with the core curriculum.” As she teaches poetry classes at night, she soon learns that one of her students, Jimmy Roy…
"The Kindergarten Teacher Takes Us On A Ride"