I don’t see why there’s friction between documentarian Alex Gibney and director George Hickenlooper over the use of the term “Casino Jack” in the titles of their respective Jack Abramoff films. HIckenlooper’s film, a feature starring Kevin Spacey as Abramoff, is called Casino Jack, and Gibney’s is called Casino Jack: The United States of Money. I can tell the two apart easily. Both could play Sundance 2010…maybe.
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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