I don’t know USA Today columnist Whitney Matheson and I figure she’s got to have one or two things on the ball to land a gig with a serious nationwide publication, but her stuff is depressingly shallow, inane…it’s like a parody of a writer with some depth who’s decided to put everyone on and pretend they’re the emptiest, least interesting GenXer in the history of the planet. Really, read some of this shit…it’s mind-bending.
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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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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