Today’s Canard : “Jack Nicholson Always Plays The Same Character”

Posted on May 3rd, 2017 by Adam-Troy Castro

Originally published on Facebook 3 May 2014. Recently spoken to me, a canard I’ve heard before: “Jack Nicholson always plays the same character.” This sounds good, but is only believed by people who have seen only a small number of his films. The persona usually attributed to him, “Jack Nicholson,” the eyebrow-raising hell raiser who […]

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The Single Dumbest Thing Yet Written In Tribute to Alan Rickman

Posted on January 15th, 2016 by Adam-Troy Castro

Look. I am second to no one on my love for the  screen work of the late Alan Rickman. I saw Die Hard in preview, before anybody knew it would become a classic of its kind and a model for many inferior films, including its own sequels, that came after it. I knew he was a star the second […]

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Twenty-Four Angry Men

Posted on June 29th, 2011 by Adam-Troy Castro

Can we just talk about this a little more? Please? First Commentary by Adam-Troy Castro Twelve Angry Men (1957). Directed by Sidney Lumet. Screenplay by Reginald Rose, from his prior teleplay. Starring Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, E.G. Marshall, Jack Klugman, Jack Warden, Ed Begley, others. 96 minutes. **** 12 (in Russian with Subtitles Available; […]

Tags: 12, Courtroom Drama, Dog Day AFternoon, Drama, E.G. Marshall, Ed Begley, Fail-Safe, George C. Scott, Henry Fonda, Hume Cronyn, Jack Klugman, Jack Lemmon, Jack Warden, Lee J. Cobb, Murder on the Orient Express, Mykelti Williamson, Network, Ossie Davis, Prince of the City, Serpico, Sidney Lumet, The Grapes Of Wrath, The Odd Couple, The Ox-Bow Incident, The Pawnbroker, The Verdict, Twelve Angry Men, William Friedkin