Russell Crowe Archives - From | The | Balcony https://fromthebalcony.com/tag/russell-crowe/ Remade, rebooted, or reimagined every 5 years. Fri, 04 Jul 2014 00:33:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.9 64136672 Body of Lies (2008) https://fromthebalcony.com/movie-reviews/body-of-lies-2008/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=body-of-lies-2008 https://fromthebalcony.com/movie-reviews/body-of-lies-2008/#respond Thu, 09 Oct 2008 04:00:41 +0000 http://localhost/ftb/?p=1048 It’s pretty apparent that Hollywood wouldn’t mind if the War on Terror lasted one hundred years (hey, it’s the only figure we’ve been given to work with). The post-9/11 thriller factory is still working at full capacity, but Body of Lies emerges as more of a cautionary espionage tale than… Continue reading

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]]> https://fromthebalcony.com/movie-reviews/body-of-lies-2008/feed/ 0 1048 American Gangster (2007) https://fromthebalcony.com/movie-reviews/american-gangster-2007/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=american-gangster-2007 https://fromthebalcony.com/movie-reviews/american-gangster-2007/#respond Thu, 01 Nov 2007 04:00:41 +0000 http://localhost/ftb/?p=929 American Gangster is a formidable piece of work, not to mention director Ridley Scott’s finest effort since 2001’s Black Hawk Down. It personifies the genre that many feared extinct in this era of CGI – the gritty cops and gangsters thriller. Stuck in development hell since 2004 and even dropped… Continue reading

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