“Steve Carell‘s next film would appear to be definitely Date Night with Tina Fey,” a guy I know confides. “Their respective windows on both their series necessitates it.” One look at this and it seems to be primarily about the pairing of names, and secondarily about Josh Klausner‘s script. (His last two gigs were the third and fourth Shrek films.) The other concern is that it’s being directed by Shawn Levy, which means a certain been-there-eighteen-times-before quality.
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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