In a 8.14 Auteurs essay, Some Came Running‘s Glenn Kenny summarized for history and posterity the Elbert/Scott/Maher/Yours Truly/McWeeny/H.G. Wells/George Pal/Morlock & Eloi meme, a.k.a. “You Damn Kids.” And at the conclusion — I love this — Kenny notes that “the age argument seems played out [as] Wells is onto a new class of people who suck: Chicks, ’cause they won’t go see The Cove.”
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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