Rage (2014)
Directed by: Paco Cabezas
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Peter Stormare, Danny Glover, Aubrey Peeples
Rated: NR (Suggested R for Violence and Language)
Running Time: 1 h 38 m
TMM Score: 2 stars out of 5
STRENGTHS: Ending, Some Unintentionally Funny Action Scenes
WEAKNESSES: Writing, Directing, Unlikeable Characters, Acting, Pacing
After his daughter is murdered, an ex-criminal gets his old crew together to find the people that killed her.
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The Brothers Grimm (2005)
Directed By: Terry Gilliam
Starring: Matt Damon, Heath Ledger, Lena Headey, Peter Stormare, Jonathan Pryce
Rated: PG13
Run Time: 1h 58m
TMM Score: 3
Strengths: Unique High Concept, Some Laughs
Weakness: Dialogue, CGI
Brothers Jake and Will Grimm are con-men grifting money from German villages in order to rid them of ‘supernatural entities,’ but when a French General forces them to uncover who is behind the disappearance of almost a dozen children, they discover that the supernatural isn’t just a figment of their imagination.
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Chocolat (2000)
Directed by: Lasse Hallstrom
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Alfred Molina, Judi Dench, Carrie-Anne Moss, Lena Olin, Peter Stormare, Hugh O’Conor
Rated: PG-13 for a Scene of Sensuality and Some Violence
Running Time: 2 h 1 m
TMM Score: 4 stars out of 5
STRENGTHS: Tone, Writing, Acting, Themes, Production Design
WEAKNESSES: Cinematography, Editing
A single mother opens a chocolate shop in a conservative village in France, challenging the morals of the town.
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Fargo (1996)
Directed By: Joel & Ethan Coen
Starring: William H. Macey, Steve Buscemi, Peter Stormare, Frances McDormand, John Caroll Lynch, Larry Brandenberg
Rated: R
Run Time: 1h 38m
TMM Score: 5 Stars
Strengths: Acting, Themes, Cinematography, Unique Setting
Weakness: None
When Jerry Lundegaard, tired of scrounging for scraps and grinding as a failed car/undercoat salesman, decides to stage a kidnap and ransom of his wife to gain access to his father-in-law’s money and the mild mannered mid-westerner ends ends up in league with a violently pragmatic criminal cohort.
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The Big Lebowski (1998)
Directed by: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Starring: Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Steve Buscemi, Julianne Moore, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Tara Reid, David Huddleston, Peter Stormare, Flea, John Turturro, David Thewlis
Rated: R for Pervasive Strong Language, Drug Content, Sexuality, and Brief Violence
Running Time: 1 h 57 m
TMM Score: 5 stars out of 5
STRENGTHS: This is a Perfect Film
WEAKNESSES: -
Slacker ‘The Dude’ navigates LA trying to untangle a mess of a conspiracy.
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