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Until last night I hadn’t even heard of Shane Atkinson‘s Laroy, Texas. Apparently it’s a primitive action thing about crude backwater Texas trash. Then again it costars Dylam Baker, which implies a veneer of intelligence. It’s presumed that costar John Magaro, who mostly specializes in playing sensitive cerebral types (i.e., wimps), doesn’t play one of…

Trump and Netanyahu want this guy reduced to bony barbecue chunks within the next 48 hours, and preferably sooner. No support or agreement implied. I’m simply stating a strategic fact. If you’ve taken the huge, irrevocable step of killing Ali Khamenei, Iran’s 80-something-year-old hardline supreme leader, and then a week or so later his 50-something-year-old…

My favorite Country Joe moment…a study in casually laid-back rockstar aloofness. 1. Adopting a certain yeah-yeah enthusiasm, Joe asks the crowd “so how you guys doin’ out there?” 2. Crowd: “Great!…yeah!…whoo-hoo!” 3. Joe quickly shifts into a kind of smooth-cat, half-bored attitude…”Oh, yeah?”

Even if The Bride! had opened a couple of weeks ago, Jessie Buckley still would have been locked to take the Best Actress Oscar next Sunday (3.15).

I can’t wait to effing hate this film…literally drooling in anticipation. Unless, of course, it turns out to be good or half-decent. Which is conceivable, I suppose. I’m not exactly moist with anticipation for Warner Archives’ forthcoming restored Bluray of Frank Perry‘s Last Summer. I’ve never really liked this effing film, which is basically about…

Over the last 13 years Ryan Coogler has directed one truly searing and formidable drama — the riveting, socially impactful, fact-based Fruitvale Station (’13) — followed by four urgent, high-octane exercises in glossy, unsubtle formula fare — Creed (’15), Black Panther (’18), Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (’22) and Sinners (’25). There’s nothing wrong with being…

From Tom Junod‘s “The Last Swinger“, a GQ profile of Tony Curtis published 30 years ago (April 1996):

From “The Bride! Is the Latest Example of a New Wave of Feminist Horror,” a Variety piece by Kennedy French, posted on 3.6.26: “When Maggie Gyllenhaal sat down to rewatch The Bride of Frankenstein, the 1935 James Whale classic, she wasn’t prepared for what she didn’t see. The Bride appears for only two minutes. She…

Posted by Politico‘s Erica Orden (3.5.36, 9:30 pm EST) “The Justice Department [has] posted a trio of FBI interviews with a woman who’s alleged that President Donald Trump sexually assaulted her when she was a young teenager after she was introduced to him by Jeffrey Epstein. “The woman’s central allegation, according to FBI summaries of…

From the corner of B’way and 43rd you can see the golden Ben-Hur signage atop the Loew’s State marquee at B’way and 45th; ditto the building signage above it. You can also spot the DeMille’s Psycho billboard at Seventh Ave. amd 47th. Ben-Hur had opened in late November of ’59 and was still playing on…