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Giovanni Ribisi

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X-Files, The - Season 3 (TV Series)X-Files, The - Season 3 (TV Series) (1995) Recommended
Dir. R.W. Goodwin, Rob Bowman, Kim Manners
Feat. Gillian Anderson, David Duchovny, Jack Black
The third series keeps close to the high standards of season two, continuing to develop the conspiracy themes. Both Cancer Man and Skinner start to…
Lost HighwayLost Highway (1997)
Dir. David Lynch
Feat. Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Balthazar Getty
Welcome to Lynchland. Where picket fences surround troubled, violent, sexual twisted souls who converse in awkwardly measured rhythms. David Lynch…
SuburbiaSuburbia (1997)
Dir. Richard Linklater
Feat. Giovanni Ribisi, Parker Posey, Steve Zahn
Dir. Linklater returns to his favourite milieu – the teen angst movie – only this time working from someone else's material, a play by…
Postman, ThePostman, The (1998)
Dir. Kevin Costner
Feat. Kevin Costner, Will Patton, Larenz Tate
The postie, Kevin Costner, delivers another clutch of post–apocalyptic improbabilities a la WATERWORLD. Again playing Man From Nowhere, here he…
Mod Squad, TheMod Squad, The (1999)
Dir. Scott Silver
Feat. Claire Danes, Giovanni Ribisi, Omar Epps
In LA Clubland Claire Danes and fellow teen–delinquents Giovanni Ribisi and Omar Epps, are pressed into a crime–fighting role, proceeding…
It's the RageIt's the Rage (1999)
Dir. James D. Stern
Feat. Jeff Daniels, Joan Allen, Gary Sinise
This caustic, precocious black comedy/satire of America's obsession with guns is a roundelay of violent and volatile confrontations that eventually…
Boiler RoomBoiler Room (2000) Recommended
Dir. Ben Younger
Feat. Giovanni Ribisi, Ben Affleck, Vin Diesel
Bullish morality–tale set in the stockmarket boom–world of 1990s America, where the hi–tech stock–bubble was hyped by…
Gift, TheGift, The (2000)
Dir. Sam Raimi
Feat. Cate Blanchett, Hilary Swank, Giovanni Ribisi
Rivalling THE SIXTH SENSE among latterday supernatural thrillers and with a pedigree to boast of, this eerie tale of smalltown ghosts and secrets is…
Shot in the HeartShot in the Heart (2001)
Dir. Agnieszka Holland
Feat. Elias Koteas, Giovanni Ribisi, Eric Bogosian
Interesting slant on the Gary Gilmore case – an infamous US murderer and subject of a Norman Mailer book –this sets Gilmore (Koteas) against his…
HeavenHeaven (2002)
Dir. Tom Tykwer
Feat. Cate Blanchett, Giovanni Ribisi
An art–thriller worked from a script by the late Krzysztof Kieslowski which follows the enigmatic trail of recently widowed and vengeful Cate…
BasicBasic (2003)
Dir. John McTiernan
Feat. John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Connie Nielsen
Slick jungle thriller kept interesting by a far from basic storyline involving US troops on a training mission in Panama. When the squad runs into…
Lost in TranslationLost in Translation (2003) Aro Favourite
Dir. Sofia Coppola
Feat. Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Giovanni Ribisi
A coolly romantic and engaging tale of a “brief encounter” between two Americans stranded in Tokyo – a movie–star in midlife crisis…
Masked and AnonymousMasked and Anonymous (2003)
Dir. Larry Charles
Feat. Jeff Bridges, Penelope Cruz, Bob Dylan
In a near–apocalyptic future America, a popular singer (Bob Dylan) sets out on a nationwide tour to revive his career before heading into a…
I Love Your WorkI Love Your Work (2003)
Dir. Adam Goldberg
Feat. Giovanni Ribisi, Christina Ricci, Joshua Jackson
A puffy–eyed Ribisi plays a Hollywood actor who is unsettled, then repelled by the onerous trappings of fame, and retreats into a dangerous…
Love's BrotherLove's Brother (2004)
Dir. Jan Sardi
Feat. Adam Garcia, Giovanni Ribisi, Barry Otto
The screenwriter of SHINE, makes an earnest debut with this romantic drama set in 1950s Victoria and the attempts of two Italian–Australian…
Sky Captain and the World of TomorrowSky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004) Recommended
Dir. Kerry Conran
Feat. Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie
Ambitious futuristic 'boys own' adventure sets up a scenario in which giant robots are attacking Earth in a 1930s retro–futuristic world of…
Flight of the PhoenixFlight of the Phoenix (2004)
Dir. Jason Moore
Feat. Dennis Quaid, Giovanni Ribisi, Miranda Otto
Workmanlike remake of the 1965 Aldrich near–classic, in which a plainload of oilworkers crashland in the desert (here the Gobi), leaving them…
Big White, TheBig White, The (2005)
Dir. Mark Mylod
Feat. Robin Williams, Holly Hunter, Giovanni Ribisi
Black farce set in snowy Alaska around travel–agent Robin Williams who is struggling to help his ailing wife and seizes a dubious opportunity…
Dead Girl, TheDead Girl, The (2006) Aro Favourite
Dir. Karen Moncrieff
Feat. Toni Collette, Piper Laurie, Rose Byrne
A superb ensemble cast give rich life to this exceptional drama that interlinks the unsettling stories of five women connected to the discovery of a…
Perfect StrangerPerfect Stranger (2007)
Dir. James Foley
Feat. Halle Berry, Bruce Willis, Giovanni Ribisi
Halle Berry stakes out a murder suspect (Willis) via online social networks and chatroom espionage in this lurid tech–oriented thriller.…
AvatarAvatar (2009) Recommended
Dir. James Cameron
Feat. Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver
James Cameron’s record–shattering 3D epic is a woozy mix of allegory and special effects (developed at Wellington's Weta studios), set on a…
Middle MenMiddle Men (2009)
Dir. George Gallo
Feat. Luke Wilson, Giovanni Ribisi, Gabriel Macht
Darkly funny drama looks at the unsavoury mix of characters who kicked off the internet porn revolution in the mid–nineties. Stylishly done in…
Rum Diary, TheRum Diary, The (2011)
Dir. Bruce Robinson
Feat. Johnny Depp, Aaron Eckhart, Amber Heard
Johnny Depp returns to the world of Hunter S. Thompson in this adaptation of the Gonzo journalist's "lost" autobiographical novel of the same name,…
Columbus CircleColumbus Circle (2012)
Dir. George Gallo
Feat. Selma Blair, Amy Smart, Jason Lee
Selma Blair plays an agoraphobic heiress whose apartment building becomes the subject of a homicide investigation in this tense psychological…
ContrabandContraband (2012)
Dir. Baltasar Kormakur
Feat. Mark Wahlberg, Giovanni Ribisi, Kate Beckinsale
A solid, down–and–dirty outing for burly Mark Wahlberg, here playing a former smuggler who heads to Panama to score millions of dollars…
TedTed (2012)
Dir. Seth MacFarlane
Feat. Mark Wahlberg, Seth MacFarlane, Mila Kunis
The man–child comedy reaches its apotheosis with Seth MacFarlane's unsurprisingly vulgar film debut. Mark Wahlberg plays opposite his teddy…
Gangster SquadGangster Squad (2013)
Dir. Ruben Fleischer
Feat. Sean Penn, Ryan Gosling, Josh Brolin
This straight–shooting, bang–a–minute gangster flick scores as both an entertaining throwback to 40s–era crime fighting, and…
A Million Ways to Die in the WestA Million Ways to Die in the West (2014)
Dir. Seth MacFarlane
Feat. Seth MacFarlane, Charlize Theron, Amanda Seyfried
Seth MacFarlane directs and stars in this rambunctious western spoof about a cowardly farmer who falls for the wife of a notorious gun–slinger.
Playing It CoolPlaying It Cool (A Many Splintered Thing) (2014)
Dir. Justin Reardon
Feat. Chris Evans, Michelle Monaghan, Aubrey Plaza
Romantic comedy with a lovestruck author entering into a platonic relationship with a woman who's already engaged to someone else.
SelmaSelma (2014) Recommended
Dir. Ava DuVernay
Feat. David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo, Tim Roth
Stirring chronicle of Martin Luther King's campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965.
ResultsResults (2015)
Dir. Andrew Bujalski
Feat. Guy Pearce, Kevin Corrigan, Cobie Smulders
An unorthodox take on the romantic comedy has Guy Pearce and Cobie Smulders as personal trainers' whose personal lives are upended by the actions of…
Ted 2Ted 2 (2015)
Dir. Seth MacFarlane
Feat. Mark Wahlberg, Seth MacFarlane, Amanda Seyfried
More gross–out shenanigans from the mind of Seth MacFarlane. This time out the titular teddy bear wants to adopt a child, only the law stands…
MeadowlandMeadowland (2015)
Dir. Reed Morano
Feat. Olivia Wilde, Luke Wilson, Juno Temple
Well–acted, very downbeat drama about a couple struggling to cope with the disappearance – and likely murder – of their young son.

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