Matthew McConaughey Archive
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‘Interstellar’: Nolan’s overstuffed vision
Posted on November 4, 2014 | No CommentsHollywoodandFine.com Christopher Nolan’s philosophy of filmmaking apparently is this: Why make one movie when you can make three? Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn’t. “Interstellar” works much more often than […] -
‘The Wolf of Wall Street,’ reviewed by Marshall Fine
Posted on December 22, 2013 | No CommentsHollywoodandFine.com He’s not really a wolf – he’s more like a hyena, a scavenger, a bottom-feeder. Why would you want to know his story? That’s my takeaway from Martin Scorsese’s […] -
‘Dallas Buyers Club,’ reviewed by Marshall Fine
Posted on October 30, 2013 | No CommentsHollywoodandFine.com Having squandered most of this century’s first decade being a movie star, Matthew McConaughey has approached its second stanza as an actor. The results have been salutary. In a […] -
‘Mud,’ reviewed by Marshall Fine
Posted on April 22, 2013 | No CommentsHollywoodandFine.com “Mud” is a coming-of-age tale that feels a bit like a modern “Huckleberry Finn,” mixed with a young-adult romance novel. Yet there is something both engaging and unique about […] -
Zero Dark Thirty named 2012’s Best Picture
Posted on December 3, 2012 | No CommentsKathryn Bigelow’s war drama Zero Dark Thirty, about the hunt for Osama bin Laden, was named Best Picture from this year’s vote. The film also won two other awards for […] -
‘The Paperboy,’ reviewed by Marshall Fine
Posted on October 1, 2012 | No CommentsHollywoodandFine.com Lee Daniels received all sorts of accolades for 2009’s “Precious,” which seemed to announce a fiery new filmmaking talent. But the real indicator of Daniels’ sensibility may actually be […] -
‘Killer Joe,’ reviewed by Marshall Fine
Posted on July 25, 2012 | No CommentsHollywoodandFine.com He won a Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for “August: Osage County,” a tale of family dysfunction that was scathing and dark. But that wasn’t playwright Tracy Letts’ first […] -
‘Bernie,’ reviewed by Marshall Fine
Posted on April 25, 2012 | No CommentsHollywoodandFine.com Richard Linklater has made a career of defying expectations, making everything from “The Bad News Bears” and “School of Rock” to “A Scanner Darkly” and now “Bernie.” “Bernie” might […]