The fact that I’m reduced to posting ping-pong photos (taken late yesterday afternoon in West Hollywood) tells you how dead it is out there. Topics for Oscar Poker #39: (a) the death of Larry Crowne; (b) What summer films (if any) are we looking forward to?; (c) the coming of Horrible Bosses and (d) Movie titles I cannot and will not abide, no matter how good the film may be: Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest.
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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