Dylan Baker, 48, is one of our very best character actors. He’s performed in 79 features, TV movies and series episodes over the last 20 years. I’ve greatly enjoyed his performances in The Road to Perdition, Thirteen Days and Happiness, but the best thing he’s ever given the world has been “Owen,” the tobacco-spittin’ hayseed in Planes Trains and Automobiles, which was only his second acting job.
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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