Tim Basaraba – So they say limitation breeds genius? And Hitchcock’s Rope (1948), Noe’s Irréversible (2002) and Enter the Void (2009), and even Silent House (2011) benefited from from a “single shot” (wink, wink) approach? Could Academy Award Winner Sam Mendes benefit from this limitation as well?
Tim Basaraba – Can Chadwick Boseman carry a film as the lead? Yes! Black Panther, Thurgood Marshall and Jackie Robinson proved that. But without a historical figure or comic book iCon, does Boseman have what it takes?
Tim Basaraba – Having not seen any of Todd Haynes’ previous films, I had the rare pleasure of being unfamiliar with a director’s work upon sitting down in the theater for his 2019 thriller Dark Waters. This was refreshing and also a bit frustrating.
Tim Basaraba – When Murder on the Orient Express arrived in theaters two years ago with its amazing ensemble cast, it looked like the Whodunit genre may be the next big moneymaking Hollywood retread. Unfortunately, the execution of the film fell flat, even with the amazing cast and competent director Kenneth Branagh.
Tim Basaraba – Paul Walter Hauser was a huge stand out in the great I, Tonya (2017), playing Shawn Ecardt, an overweight, delusional momma’s boy. Now, with the help of director Clint Eastwood, he had a chance to play the same character, albeit in different circumstances in Clint Eastwood’s 2019 film Richard Jewell
