Why don’t the bad guys want Bruce Willis to put a new, store-bought battery into his car? I’m not following, in part because the editing feels forced and frenetic.
Born in ’65, De’voreaux White (aka “Argyle”) was around 22 when the original Die Hard was shot — he’s now 55. Clarence Gilyard (aka “Theo”) was 32 or thereabouts during filming — do the math.
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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