“I was at a Best Buy the other day trying to pick up a double disc of Citizen Kane on sale for $10, but I couldn’t find it. So I asked the girl in the department for help and she said she’d never heard of Citizen Kane or Orson Welles. I almost asked her if she was retarded. Instead I wept openly and asked her to just point me to the latest Kate Hudson crapfest. Full Disclosure: I am 39, and she said she was 24.” — posted at 5:09 pm by HE reader Buck Swope.
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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