Listen to the guy identified as Burt Reynolds in this Movie Geeks United podcast. I know what Reynolds sounds like — I know his the purr and the flip of his voice like the back of my hand — and this guy ain’t him. Or more precisely, he ain’t the Reynolds of yore. And yet Reynolds did sound like his own self last year when he visited the Key West Film Festival (which is where I’m flying off to tonight, by the way).
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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