In his January 2010 review of High School, Film School Rejects’ Neil Miller called it “a stoner comedy worthy of being mentioned in the same paragraph as both Dazed and Confused and the great John Hughes…for a movie that could be easily labeled a ‘stoner comedy,’ it’s about as good as it gets.” So the reason it’s being released two and half years later is because distributors…what, felt it needed to age like fine wine?
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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