A Queens native committed to filming the outer boroughs of New York, Gray's career, while picking up steam recently, has produced only four features in 15 years. Each of his first three films is ostensibly a "crime picture" but at heart they are films of family, which proves Gray's work bears as much

Composed, Gritty, Implosive, Layered, Melancholy, Organic, Sensual, Tragic, Urban

Consistently derided as quirky, Wes Anderson's career as a filmmaker has been enviable, lucky, charming and always evolving. What began with the simple, misshapen (but elegant) not-quite-caper film BOTTLE ROCKET, with its focus on friendships not crime, continues to grow and to dream big and to encom

Absurd, Baroque, Bright, Brit-pop, Citational, Clean, Comedies, Elegant, Funny, Implosive, Joyful, Kinetic, Lush, Overflowing, Polychromatic, Sardonic, Sincere, Whimsical, Witty

Architectural, Classic hollywood, Classical, Drama, Elegant, Implosive, Layered, Masculine, Populist-mythists, Spectral, Technology, Tragic, Violent

Steven Seagal is a striking and somewhat boyishly handsome looking (often with ponytail) and usually impeccably dressed action star who burst onto the martial arts film scene in 1988 in the fast-paced Warner Bros. film Above the Law (1988). The enigmatic Seagal commenced his martial arts training at

Implosive, In-your-face, Machinistic, Masculine, Pop, Rebel