Browsing: Russell Crowe

Perhaps one of Sir Ridley Scott’s true masterpieces is getting a sequel. No, it’s not another Alien film (although he is still working on those), but rather his Oscar-winning feat of historical epic-ness that is Gladiator. Yes, we’re talking Gladiator 2: Are You Not Entertained [Again]. This is something Scott has been trying to do for sometime, but it never […]

There’s a lot of talk that the 2017 Universal Pictures The Mummy reboot may be the single worst Tom Cruise movie of the modern age.  I say that because if you look at Rotten Tomatoes scores for Cruise flicks, the worst is Cocktail at 5%, Elizabethtown is at 28%, Lions For Lambs at 27%, and The Mummy is now at 17%. The […]

I was pleasantly surprised by the buddy cop/odd couple less cerebral Pulp Fiction, if such a thing exists.  The Nice Guys takes place in 1970s Los Angeles, when down-on-his-luck private eye Holland March (Gosling) and hired enforcer Jackson Healy (Crowe) must work together to solve the case of a missing girl and the seemingly unrelated death of […]

I just walked out of a special screening of Russell Crowe’s directorial debut, The Water Diviner.  While not perhaps what I was expecting, I’m struggling for a way to describe it and not make jokes.  Let’s get this out of the way; if you cannot deal with intense, INTENSE scenes of war, do not see this […]