I could listen all day to vocal-free instrumental tracks. The instrumental version of Steve Miller‘s “Big Ole Jet Airliner” is, no exaggeration, heavenly. Ditto the instrumental track for the Beatles‘ “I’m Looking Through You.” Maybe it’s because I was in a couple of bands and I’m into the beauty of just the right chord changes strummed just the right way and at just the right time and…I don’t know, the whole glorious jangly-jangly of it all.
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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