Did anyone go to the 3:10 to Yuma sneak last night? Obviously tens of thousands did. Reactions, intuitions, leg twtichings? Any insect antennae readings about how it played with the crowd? What about Russell Crowe‘s horse hearing his whistle 40 or 50 feet away over the chug-chug-chug of the locomotive engines, and then galloping alongside the train with a special lock-picking skeleton key between his teeth?
Roughly two months ago a very early draft of Eric Roth‘s screenplay for Killers of the Flower Moon (dated 2.20.17,...
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Frances McDormand‘s Fern was strong but mule-stubborn and at the end of the day self-destructive, and this stunted psychology led...
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Can’t decide which performance is better, although I’ve always leaned toward Tina Vitale, her cynical New Jersey moll behind the...
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Two days ago (1.19) a Facebook tribute congratulated Tippi Hedren for having reached her 94th year (blow out the candles!)...
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A friend suggested a list of the Ten Best American Crime Flicks of the ‘70s. By which he meant films...
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I’ve never been able to give myself over to Sam Peckinpah’s Major Dundee, a 1965 Civil War–era western, and I’ve...
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