Anybody who’s too young to remember The Goodbye Girl may be shocked at the accomplishment and nuance of Richard Dreyfuss’s performance in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Here, he plays a man possessed; contacted by aliens, he (along with other members of the “chosen”) is drawn toward the site of the incipient landing: Devil’s […]
Elf
Buddy (Will Ferrell) was a baby in an orphanage who stowed away in Santa’s sack and ended up at the North Pole. Later, as an adult human who happened to be raised by elves, Santa (Ed Asner) allows him to go to New York City to find his birth father, Walter Hobbs (James Caan). Hobbs, […]
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
Steven Spielberg’s 1982 hit E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial about a stranded alien and his loving relationship with a fatherless boy named Elliot (Henry Thomas) struck a chord with audiences everywhere, and it furthered Spielberg’s reputation as a director of equally strong commercial sensibilities and classical leanings. Thomas gives a strong, emotional performance as E.T.’s young friend, […]
The Machinist
As a bleak and chilling mood piece, The Machinist gets under your skin and stays there. Christian Bale threw himself into the title role with such devotion that he shed an alarming 63 pounds to play Trevor Reznik, a factory worker who supposedly hasn’t slept in a year. He’s haunted by a mysterious occurrence that […]
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