Lullaby [xrr rating=2.5/5]Garrett Hedlund is already dangerously close to being typecast as the chain-smoking drifter chasing his vaguely defined dreams. After putting himself on the map with Tron: Legacy, Hedlund proved himself a capable leading man in the 2012 adaptation of On the Road with a strong performance as Dean Moriarty; he followed that up with a small but memorable supporting … Read More
List Inconsequential: Best Musicians Turned Actors James Taylor in Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) Okay, let’s be real: the performance from Monte Hellman’s ’70s anti-road movie that everyone remembers is not James Taylor as the affectless, unnamed driver, but Warren Oates as his colorful racing rival. Oates is great fun to watch, but the film wouldn’t work without Taylor’s bewildered displacement — that weird sense that he seems … Read More
