James Bond is dead, poor Daniel Craig is the first mate on a sinking ship, Bourne is the new Bond, etc. But people keep sending me the brand-new Bond/Casino Royale trailer and I have to admit…fuck that, I don’t have to admit anything. But it’s well cut and gives you a good jolt. I’ve just been disliking 007 producers Michael Wilson and Barbara Broccoli more than usual because they persuaded director Roger Michell to bail on the next one.
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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