VCI Entertainment’s Bluray of Bryan Desmond Hurst’s A Christmas Carol (’51) came out thirteen and a half months ago. I bought it, of course, but I missed the big reveal with the little guy in the mirror (i.e., to the left of Alistair Sim). Now that I’ve seen it I’ll never not notice it. It’s like the kid extra in North by Northwest who plugs his ears before Eva Marie Saint shoots Cary Grant in that Mt. Rushmore cafeteria.
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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