A good portion of the usual political discourse seems to have downshifted over the last couple of days. As if everyone is storing their energy for Big Tuesday. Not that anything final will be decided by 11.3 (or by the wee hours of 11.4), but it’ll be hugely exciting. As in historic, jubilant, appalling, melodramatic, enraging, glorious…possibly all at the same time.
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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