I’m still wrapping my head around the idea of a brand-friggin’-new Spider-Man origin story coming out only ten years after Sam Raimi‘s 2002 original, also an origin story. Boil them down and they’re more or less the same movie.
This is the second opener in a major franchise to be re-made and released within the same decade, the first being David Fincher‘s 2011 Dragon Tattoo reboot on the heels of the Niels Arden Oplev‘s 2009 original. And both from Sony Pictures, of course.
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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