The Rewrite marks the fourth collaboration between writer/director Marc Lawrence and star Hugh Grant. Okay, so they aren’t exactly Scorsese and De Niro. They’ve never delivered a Taxi Driver or a Raging Bull. The Grant/Lawrence productions have run a relatively small gamut, from “reasonably pleasant” (Music & Lyrics) to “slightly more appealing than actual physical […]
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Whiplash
It’s been awhile since audiences have been given a film about a callow recruit with promise being browbeaten into a soldier considered worthy by their terrorizing but fatherly drill instructor. With a smaller military and the exhaustion born of overlapping unending wars, there isn’t much appetite these days for those kind of stories. In fact, […]