Paul Giamatti Archive
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‘San Andreas’: Rumble. Tumble. Yawn.
Posted on May 27, 2015 | No CommentsHollywoodandFine.com “San Andreas”? I thought we critics drove a stake through this film’s heart when it came out 40 years ago under the title “Earthquake.” But each generation of special […] -
Week in Film: ‘Amazing Spider-Man 2’ and more
Posted on April 30, 2014 | No CommentsHollywoodandFine.com Yes, yes, I know – spidermanspidermanspidermanspiderman. I’ll get to it. But my favorite movies of the week, as usual, are the small ones. Let’s start with Amma Asante’s “Belle,” […] -
‘Parkland,’ reviewed by Marshall Fine
Posted on October 3, 2013 | No CommentsHollywoodandFine.com Fifty years after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, “Parkland” still has the power to hit you like a fast-moving bus. A recreation of Nov. 22, 1963, as seen […] -
‘All Is Bright,’ reviewed by Marshall Fine
Posted on October 2, 2013 | No CommentsHollywoodandFine.com Paul Giamatti is one of our great screen actors, an absolute poet of frustration and regret with the range to play a wide variety of roles. Watch him in […] -
‘John Dies at the End,’ reviewed by Marshall Fine
Posted on January 25, 2013 | No CommentsHollywoodandFine.com Based on a cult novel by David Wong, Don Coscarelli’s “John Dies at the End” suffers the same problem as its source book: an elaborate imagination in service to […] -
‘Cosmopolis,’ reviewed by Marshall Fine
Posted on August 13, 2012 | No CommentsHollywoodandFine.com I rarely take notes during movies, but when the pretentious aphorisms started flying in David Cronenberg’s “Cosmopolis,” I dove for my notebook. I missed a few of the early […]