Tagged: struggling actor

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2010s / Comedy / Thriller

Stretch (2014)

Joe Carnahan is a director with talent for action, grit, and thrills in movies like Narc and The Grey, but if there’s anything we’ve learned from watching such efforts as Blood Guts Bullets & Octane, Smokin’ Aces, and The A-Team, it’s...

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1990s / Comedy / Drama

Swingers (1996)

Jon Favreau stars as Mike, is a recently relocated New Yorker trying to make it big as a comedian/actor in Hollywood, but finding that the road to his dreams is filled with one detour...

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2000s / Comedy / Drama

Lisa Picard is Famous (2000)

Lots of independent filmmakers have taken to the “mockumentary” route for making their movies, mostly because they are relatively inexpensive, utilizing real-life locales and situations, as well as employing a good deal of improvisation...

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2000s / Action / Comedy

Showtime (2002)

I suppose it may be true that if you’ve seen one buddy movie, you’ve seen ’em all.  The “buddies” are usually two people who don’t particularly belong together and throughout have an inability to...

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1980s / Mystery / Thriller

Body Double (1984)

The idea for Body Double came when Brian De Palma replaced Angie Dickinson with a body double for a shower scene in Dressed to Kill. He examined many models who’d appeared naked in Playboy, Penthouse,...