Benicio del Toro as the Wolf Man…down with that. But you know what gets better and better with each viewing, if you take out the final 20 minutes? Mike Nichols’ unforced and sophisticated Wolf…what was that, 12 years ago? The more I think about it, the more I think it might be my all-time favorite, simply because it’s the most adult. The del Toro pic has 7even‘s Andrew Kevin Walker writing it. I’m not sure what that means.
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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