I was astonished when Warner Bros. announced that Matt Reeves would direct yet another Batman film…post-Nolan trilogy, post Schumacher, post-Burton. And yet it turned out pretty well — The Batman is a grand symphony of gloom, and all of a harmonized piece. For those who’ve seen it (and those who haven’t), which of the many Batman films stands the tallest? And how good, really, is Colin Farrell’s Penguin?
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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