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[TRAILER] Anthony Miller (Russell Crowe) a once-acclaimed actor trying to work his way back, begins to unravel while shooting a supernatural horror film, leading his estranged daughter (Ryan Simpkins) to wonder if he's slipping back into his past addictions or if there's something more sinister at play. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Sep 12, 2024 - 10 comments

A small-time rancher agrees to hold a captured outlaw who's awaiting a train to go to court in Yuma. A battle of wills ensues as the outlaw tries to psych out the rancher. [more inside]
posted by Carillon on Jan 16, 2024 - 4 comments

Gabriele Amorth (Russell Crowe), the Vatican's leading exorcist investigates the possession of a child and uncovers a conspiracy the Vatican has tried to keep secret. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on May 10, 2023 - 20 comments

[TRAILER] Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix) takes power and strips rank from Maximus (Russell Crowe), one of the favored generals of his predecessor and father, Emperor Marcus Aurelius, the great stoical philosopher. Maximus is then relegated to fighting to the death in the gladiator arenas. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Nov 29, 2022 - 19 comments

John Nash is a brilliant but asocial mathematician fighting schizophrenia. After he accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn for the nightmarish. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Nov 8, 2022 - 3 comments

Harlem drug dealer Frank Lucas rises to power in corrupt 1970s New York, equalling and surpassing the notorious Mafia families with the reach of his empire. On the other side of the law, honest cop Richie Roberts dedicates himself to taking down `the most dangerous man walking the streets'. Lucas acts with impunity, smuggling heroin into the US in the coffins of American soldiers killed in Vietnam. Based on a true story.
posted by growabrain on Feb 2, 2019 - 0 comments

This week--

• The Comey interview, which happened after LWT taped.
• The FBI raids Michael Cohen's office, home and hotel room. And a bunch of other stuff happened as well.
• And Now: Ari Melber, Rap Genius
• Main story: Corporate Taxes, the lengths that companies go to in order to avoid them, and how they stand to profit under Trump's budget.
• And Now: Ari Melber, Rap Genius, Volume Two: Just Jay-Z Quotes
• There are two remaining Blockbuster Video locations remaining in the United States, last remnants of a vast empire, and one of them is in Alaska. Last Week Tonight bought Russell Crowe's leather jockstrap from the movie Cinderella Man at auction, among a lot of other stuff. How do these two facts concide? Well, let's just say the store should get in touch with LWT within the 48 hours after airing.

The main story is on YouTube here (16 minutes). [more inside]
posted by JHarris on Apr 15, 2018 - 7 comments

As corruption grows in 1950s LA, three policemen - one strait-laced, one brutal, and one sleazy - investigate a series of murders with their own brand of justice. [more inside]
posted by MoonOrb on Feb 10, 2018 - 15 comments

In 1970s Los Angeles, a private eye (Ryan Gosling) and muscle-for-hire (Russell Crowe) are pulled into the aftermath from a fading porn star's apparent suicide and uncover a conspiracy, in the neo-noir/action/buddy comedy from Shane Black (who previously wrote and directed Kiss Kiss Bang Bang).
posted by Holy Zarquon's Singing Fish on May 23, 2016 - 13 comments

Russell Crowe shows the world why he doesn't do more comedies. [more inside]
posted by Etrigan on Apr 10, 2016 - 14 comments

Michael Mann party! [more inside]
posted by Sheydem-tants on Aug 17, 2014 - 6 comments

Sometime next weekend (August 16 or 17), I will be raving on FanFare about Michael Mann's "The Insider," which was released 15 years ago this autumn. [more inside]
posted by Sheydem-tants on Aug 8, 2014 - 3 comments