I thought reactions to Mad Max: Fury Road were embargoed until next Tuesday. When I asked last night about a rave tweet from York University’s Rob Trench, he said “no embargo, at least at the Toronto screening I was at tonight.” He meant, I presume, that no embargo was announced at last night’s screening. The use of the word “masterpiece” is tempered, of course, by the fact that Trench is fairly young, but still…
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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