That deliberately degraded, snow-grained Blu-ray of William Freidkin‘s The French Connection is out today, and I’m searching for reactions from non-reviewers. You can’t trust regular DVD reviewers since they tend to bend over backwards to say nice things because they don’t want to alienate the folks who send them free copies. If anyone was dumb enough to buy this thing (as I was), please send along your reactions. You don’t have to hate it.
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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