Films featuring
Guy Pearce

The King’s Speech (2010)

Monday, May 16th, 2011

In the past all a King had to do was look respectable in uniform and not fall off his horse.

A truly excellent movie always manages to boil its story down to the essentials. It’s the mediocre ones that fumble around trying to figure out what they’re about. I won’t say what the bad ones do, but it often involves some hand lotion and a back issue of National Geographic.

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L.A. Confidential (1997)

Wednesday, January 4th, 2006

I admire you as a policeman, particularly your adherence to violence as a necessary adjunct to the job.

It’s probably appropriate that the film adaptation of James Ellroy’s novel L.A. Confidential contains a fictional TV series that’s an obvious riff on Dragnet. This film seems like it wants to expose every dirty secret about the LAPD that Jack Webb ever whitewashed.

L.A. Confidential

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Director:  | Released:  | 138 min. | Rated:  | Genres: