Trailer #2 for Roland Emmerich‘s White House Down (Sony, 6.28) offers a greater emphasis on characters (principally Channing Tatum‘s Jone Cale, a D.C. cop of some kind, and Jamie Foxx‘s James Sawyer, the U.S. President) and humor. You can’t beat that shot of the U.S. Capitol exploding from within and collapsing. As Burt Reynolds‘ character says at the start of the Deliverance canoe trip, “This gonna be fun!”
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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