The Player

During Robert Altman's "The Player" the criteria for a good Hollywood movie are established by the lead character: "Suspense, laughter, violence, hope, heart, nudity, sex, and happy endings, mainly happy endings". If you look close enough you'll find all of... Full review

This movie just didn't work for me. I respect Altman as a director, but not this particular effort. Lots of cameos by big stars was nice, but I just didn't like the story. This is not my kind of movie. I... Full review

When it's a smart and funny look at the dark side of Hollywood, it's at its best. The numerous celebrity cameos, the sharp humour, and the in-jokes to other movies are all great and make it worthwhile. Unfortunately, that's not the... Full review

This wasn't the greatest movie I had ever seen in my lifetime, in fact I could probably name 50 more that I would watch over this one, but all in all it wasn't that bad. It mainly deals with the inside... Full review

I just went back and watched this again after many years and still find it one of the best movies ever made about movies. This "movie within a movie" has it all. Suspense, drama, comedy, great and numerous cameos, and... Full review

Once The Player's end credits rolled, I was shaken, but in the kind of way that you are when you hear a really sly, long joke by someone who knows what they're telling is not hysterical but still has a... Full review

Robert Altman gets under my skin. His films are worthy of great respect, yet they are frequently as irritating as they are brilliant. The Player is, as much as Short Cuts, a quintessential Altman film. It is also one of... Full review

Screen writing is a craft, one of many in Hollywood that builds or supports the towering edifice upon which our glamorous "stars" ... sit. Without a screenplay, actors, directors, and others in Hollywood might otherwise grovel for beans and potatoes... Full review

This film was made by the master of horror: Wes Craven. It was a good original classic teen horror movie. Although its sequels are not so good, this is the movie that started it all. The story was an A+, the... Full review

Robert Altman performed a great service to us movie fans with this movie. We are able to see the brutish way the studios treat their writers....and don't find it difficult to believe that some writer would want to murder the... Full review

Evincing a universality and cross-cultural appeal that your average People Weekly reader could relate to, it's reminiscent of Robert Altman's The Player , which bitingly peeled back Hollywood's curtain to show how the sausages are made, and All About Eve , in which a calculating ingénue peeled back her own curtain and whatever else she needed to peel in order to be famous. ... Full Review

The Player (based on Michael Tolkin's novel of the same name) opens with a clapboard followed closely by Walter the security chief's humorous and ironic diatribe concerning camera technique. The audience's discomfort is added to by the disturbing overlay of various characters' conversations and the constantly roving camera. ... Full Review

The Player (based on Michael Tolkin's novel of the same name) opens with a clapboard followed closely by Walter the security chief's humorous and ironic diatribe concerning camera technique. The audience's discomfort is added to by the disturbing overlay of various characters' conversations and the constantly roving camera. ... Full Review

Synopsis The Player still seems fresh after eight years shows this is a film that will hold up as long as Hollywood continues its usual practices. More movie fans should appreciate Altman as well in The Player he allows you to enjoy the experience without insulting your intelligence. ... Full Review

As for the film-making itself, The Player isn't perhaps the best-looking movie Altman has managed. The film is better than that. This is not so much Michael Tolkin's book, good as it was. ... Full Review

This was a light week for DVDs so I imagine it is a historically weak sales date or someone would have challenged for your spending cash. ... Full Article

StoryboardA storyboard, or simply board, has each shot drawn on one side of the page, with the script material it covers, dialogue, action, objects: and so on, on the other side. ... Full Article

MIRACLE ON THE HUDSON!!! The only question remaining: How long the media can string this story out? KIM JONG IL SONG: NOT RACIST BECAUSE FUNNY... ... Full Article

A wonderful satire on Hollywood, The Player is one of Robert Altman's most enjoyable films. This tantalising thriller coated with Hollywood sugar, gives an insider's guide to the movie business, the acting scene and the action behind the scenes. Besides, ... Full Article

Overture! Light the lights! Welcome, one and all, to the final cut of CineTopia's Inaugural LIVE commentary on the Oscars, where we brought you the winners as they were announced, complete with our special comments on each of the Awards... ... Full Article

If you've ever seen the movie "The Player" then you know the opening sequence is one of the best ever shot. In fact, the opening is better than any action movie ever filmed since there's a lot of action going... ... Full Article