The just-released poster for Spike Lee‘s Oldboy (Film District, 10.11) is twice as tall as the cleavered version pasted below. But it doesn’t matter because the full-boat version just shows another ten years etched out in red ink or blood or whatever. The point is that Josh Brolin‘s Joe Doucett has been imprisoned for 20 years, etc. Elizabeth Olsen, District 9‘s Sharlto Copley and Samuel L. Jackson costar.
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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