All I ask is that when Hollywood or HBO makes a film about Gerald Blanchard, the brilliant Canadian thief recently profiled by Wired‘s Joshuah Bearman, that they don’t let Steven Spielberg anywhere near it. He’ll just screw things up with too much sentiment or bad casting or whatever. Blanchard + celebrated Keyser Soze-like teenaged criminal Colton Harris-Moore makes two sociopaths enjoying media glare over the last couple of days.
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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