He was one deeply perverted creep and there were several others (including Donald Trump) who drank at the trough. Obviously icky and cruel but there aren’t thousands or hundreds or even dozens of Jeffrey Epsteins out there. Not to my knowledge, at least.

I suddenly want to see this again. I haven’t since early ’98. During filming Matt Damon was 26, and Ben Affleck was 24. After a strong 17-year run, Robin Williams was nailing his last high-quality, emotional bull’s-eye film role — roughly on par with Dead Poet’s Society. Five years after Good Will Hunting he played a pair of psychos in Chris Nolan‘s Insomnia — his last grade-A film — and One-Hour Photo. He hung in there for the next 12-plus years but the glory days had ended.

Anya, our three-year-old Siamese, was actually watching Luis Bunuel‘s Los Olvidados (’50) this morning. Her eyes were glued to the screen, following the action, staying with it, etc.

90 year-old movie poster of young Luis Bunuel inside Ristorante Gallo Romano, 44 Rue Galande, 75005 Paris.

A couple of weeks ago “Shamook” posted this deepfake montage of Chris “cheeseburger with fries” Pratt as Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones.

It’ll probably never happen, but this at least suggests that Pratt could physically step into those Indy boots at a moment’s notice. The problem is that Pratt’s screen persona is too lightweight, too “just kidding.” Unlike Ford, he’s refused to establish gravitas cred by making middle-class, real-world movies — he insists on making only high-paying fantasy or franchise crap. He’s never even delivered the kind of solemn emotion that Ford managed in that carbon deep-freeze scene in The Empire Strikes Back. Plus he doesn’t have that Ford’s grumbly deep register voice. He just doesn’t have it. A poor man’s Ford at best.

Not too many months ago Ford allegedly told a Today interviewer that “nobody is gonna be Indiana Jones! Don’t you get it? I’m Indiana Jones. When I’m gone, he’s gone. It’s easy.”

An undated piece on BuzzBingo announces that Jonah Hill has surpassed Samuel L. Jackson as the all-time movie profanity king, largely due to Hill’s performance in The Wolf of Wall Street.

Terrific — congrats to Jonah and to Wolf director Martin Scorsese, who egged Jonah on in this regard. But why now? Did the profanity counters of the world (and surely there are others besides the BuzzBingo guys) fail to tabulate Hill’s eff-bombs in the immediate wake of Scorsese’s film, which opened six and a half years ago? They took note of all the Uncut Gems eff-bombs so they’re charting things as they go along, but why…? Forget it.

Never allow a road-rage incident to ignite. Always apologize, turn the other cheek, accept blame, let it go.

There are three reasons why Derrick Borte, Carl Ellsworth and Russell Crowe‘s Unhinged (Solstice Studios, 7.1) is suddenly a major wanna-see. One, it’s Steven Spielberg‘s Duel meets Joel Schumacher‘s Falling Down, and we all know the name of that tune. Two, it’s about a hair-trigger situation that we’ve all experienced at one time or another, and in a broader sense about the general bottled-up rage that lies just beneath the surface of American life these days. And three, some of us have felt like Crowe’s character at one time or another (to our shame), but more of us have unwisely behaved like Caren Pistorious‘s enraged mom.

Crowe is the classic madman, but Pistorious is more of a villain because she won’t won’t dial it down when he apologizes. She drew first blood, not him.

Wiki note: “Originally scheduled to be released on September 4, 2020, Unhinged was moved up to July 1, 2020, in order to ‘likely be the first to test the waters as theaters try to rebound‘ from the COVID-19 pandemic.”

A nearly week-old report from the White House’s pandemic task force reportedly suggests that the behavior of “open up” bumblefucks in Middle America has resulted in a surge of Covid-19 infections.

It sounds cold to say this, but it’ll be better for all of us once this information gets around. You can’t talk to these “open up” idiots but once their friends and family members start dying they might have second thoughts.

A 5.11 NBC News report says that coronavirus infection rates “are spiking to new highs in several metropolitan areas and smaller communities across the country, according to undisclosed data the White House’s pandemic task force is using to track rates of infection, which was obtained by NBC News.

“The data in a May 7 coronavirus task force report are at odds with President Donald Trump‘s declaration Monday that ‘all throughout the country, the numbers are coming down rapidly.’

“The 10 top areas recorded surges of 72.4 percent or greater over a seven-day period compared to the previous week, according to a set of tables produced for the task force by its data and analytics unit. They include Nashville, Tennessee; Des Moines, Iowa; Amarillo, Texas; and — atop the list, with a 650 percent increase — Central City, Kentucky.

“On a separate list of ‘locations to watch,’ which didn’t meet the precise criteria for the first set: Charlotte, North Carolina; Kansas City, Missouri; Omaha and Lincoln, Nebraska; Minneapolis; Montgomery, Alabama; Columbus, Ohio; and Phoenix.

“The rates of new cases in Charlotte and Kansas City represented increases of more than 200 percent over the previous week, and other tables included in the data show clusters in neighboring counties that don’t form geographic areas on their own, such as Wisconsin’s Kenosha and Racine counties, which neighbor each other between Chicago and Milwaukee.”

A 2K Criterion Bluray of Paul Dano‘s Wildlife pops on 5.26. An impressively composed debut effort and certainly well acted, Wildlife is arguably the most grotesque infidelity drama of the 21st Century, not to mention the most cruel of heart.

The Criterion web page calls this early ’60s small-town drama, based on a Richard Ford novel, “a deeply human look at a woman’s wayward journey toward self-fulfillment in the pre-women’s-liberation era.” The use of “wayward” alludes to a mother (Carey Mulligan) cheating on her absent firefighter husband (Jake Gyllenhaal) with a rich Uriah Heep (Bill Camp) while her teenage son (Ed Oxenbould) looks on. Indeed — Mulligan all but invites Oxenbould to take part.

One glance at Oxenbould tells you he couldn’t possibly be the biological son of Mulligan and Gyllenhaal. He couldn’t be a distant nephew. And yet — this is interesting — he could easily be the son of Dano and co-screenwriter Zoey Kazan, who’ve been romantically partnered since 2007.

Paul Dano’s Wildlife is not a three-character domestic drama about a peevish, beer-drinking father (Jake Gyllenhaal) regarding his wife and son (Carey Mulligan, Ed Oxenbould) from a distance. If the Criterion cover was honest it would show Oxenbould looking through a bedroom window with horror as he watches Mulligan doing it doggy-style with Bill Camp.