Hints and tips:
...Last weekend, the 11th instalment of Halloween, John Carpenter’s 1978 slasher classic, took $77m at the box office....
...Downey dazzles in the lead and Robert Duvall would, too, as his dad, if only the script could allow it....
...There is a very funny double act between Duvall and Limey guest John Hurt: the one a bluff, uptight relic of old American money, the other a piece of brittle, endearing pottery fallen from the decaying kiln...
...But before Duvall, Charlize Theron has too many wraith-like flashbacks as vanished mum, and after Duvall, Guy Pearce, straggly and messianic, comes in for an ending as unconvincing as in the novel....
...Only the Rev John Malkovich, radio vicar and scourge of the LAPD, might save the day… You have to purr at the handsome aquatint photography and Jolie’s strong turn as a spooked and passionate conspiracy...
...The John Cassavetes season is built around a gleaming print of Opening Night (1977), his backstage drama fashioned for wife Gena Rowlands....
...Duvall’s hair salon has a sign on the street offering passers-by a “John Edwards presidential special” for $400....
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