J.K. Simmons

You know the storyline all too well. A retired criminal must commit one last big crime before he can get out of the game for good. Countless authors and filmmakers have used this handy plot device, some more effectively than others. The bad news for Contraband, Mark Wahlberg’s latest film, is that writer Aaron Guzikowski and director Baltasar Kormákur have pumped too many tiresome clichés into thi...[Read More]

It would be difficult to find a movie out there today that is as moving and heartfelt as The Music Never Stopped. The film is an adaptation of The Last Hippie written by Oliver Sacks as a chronicle of a damaged father/son relationship that is repaired when the father bonds with his runaway son through music. Torn apart by the cultural upheaval of the late 1960s, father Henry Sawyer (J.K. Simmons) ...[Read More]