Joel Schumacher‘s Trespass, a thriller about some baddie-waddies kidnapping a well-to-do couple (Nicolas Cage, Nicole Kidman), will play mid-September at the Toronto Film Festival, open theatrically on 10.14.11 and then…wham, hit the Bluray shelves on 11.1, only two and a half weeks later. That’s pretty much a straight-to-Bluray release with a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it theatrical pit stop. Have Cage or Kidman ever starred in an almost-straight-to-video flick before?
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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