John Carpenter‘s The Ward (fetching blonde confined in asylum in which a ghost is lurking around) showed at the 2010 Toronto Film Festival and nobody said squat. It opened in England last January. It finally preems here in mid-summer, probably on 7.8.11.
Costarring Amber Heard, Danielle Panabaker, Mika Boorem, Jared Harris, etc. Screenplay by Michael and Shawn Rasmussen. Girl Interrupted meets Snake Pit, No Exit, etc.
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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