The new trailer for Roland Emmerich‘s 2012 trailer promises a slightly more ferocious rehash of other doomsday movies. Here and there I felt the lingering ghosts of Armageddon, The Day After Tomorrow, Deep Impact, etc. It’s a miracle that all those meteorites (or whatever they are) manage to miss the SUV carrying John “paycheck” Cusack and his son. I’m bored. Emmerich is bored. We’re all bored.
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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