In 1968, EMI, then the most successful record company in the world, went into the movie business. The new company was called EMI Films, run by producers Barry Spikings and Michael Deeley. Spikings had bought a script calledThe Man Who Came to Play,about people who go to Las Vegas to ...
However, Pig is much more than its premise sounds, and Cage does some of the best work of his career in it as his character experiences loss. Pig's restaurant table scene plays like the perfect Oscar clip for the actor, who previously won an Oscar for Leaving Las Vegas and was last no...
Those of us who know and admire what a marvelous actor he is, await his permanent rise to greatness, the films that will silence those who have written him off. His best work could be found inLeaving Las Vegas,Adaptation, and my favorite, Michael Sarnoski’s genre-defyingPig. But for w...
The Shade Throwers: As is all too often the case online, common sense seems to come in short supply. There did seem to be a few people, men and women that understood that making too big a deal of any part of Lupita Nyong’o’s success was pointless. The Realists: Most of these o...