Martin Scorsese‘s Shine a Light opened only three and a half months ago. I’d convinced my significant other to come see the IMAX version with me, and she had half-convinced her daughter to come with us. But it didn’t happen and the film left the IMAX theatres and now the opportunity is gone for the rest of our lives on this planet. Next Tuesday’s arrival of the Shine a Light Blu-ray disc reminded me of that.
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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