Journal pal: Haven’t seen anything in the column about The Black Dahlia. Have you seen it yet? Me: Uhm, yeah, but I haven’t worked out a timing arrangement as to when I can write about it. But you know…it is what it is in that extremely talented, visually audacious way that De Palma specializes in. I can at least give it up for Josh Hartnett — he’s holds his end up — but I have to hold my water about the rest. Journo pal: Got 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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