Ron Livingston

44 Minutes

November 17, 2003 // 0 Comments

I still vividly remember the 1997 North-Hollywood bank robbery in which two heavily armed bank robbers held the police at bay for almost an hour. ’44 Minutes’ is a film adaptation of the events of that fateful day and it manages to conjure up these [...]

Beat

November 11, 2002 // 0 Comments

Drug addiction, madness, sexual obsession and beatific language represented the mantra of the writers of the Beat Generation. Their literary output aside, William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, and Allen Ginsberg led such fascinating lives that it would be [...]

Body Shots

November 28, 2000 // 0 Comments

Those of you familiar with my reviews will know that I often write about the idea of fantasy versus reality in the Hollywood cinema. Hollywood is well-known for its ability to sugar-coat reality and present a picture of life that is so perfect that most [...]

Office Space

September 28, 1999 // 0 Comments

“Office Space” is based on the “Milton” animated shorts that Mike Judge did for MTV’s “Liquid Television, ” dealing with the problems of the modern American workplace, starting out like a live-action “Dilbert” with Ron Livingston as an [...]