Does it make sense that a Swiss wellness clinic would specialize in terrifying its patients? This is nonetheless the basic premise of Gore Verbinski‘s A Cure For Wellness (20th Century Fox, 2.17.17). Obviously a neo-German expressionist production design flick first and whatever else second. The bulk of the film was shot at Hohenzollern Castle in the Bisingen municipality, in southwest Germany. Dane DeHaan, Jason Isaacs, Mia Goth, et. al. Written by Justin Haythe (Revolutionary Road).
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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