The unpleasant LAX experience of Oscar-nominated 5 Broken Cameras director Emad Burnat vaguely overlaps with Mira Nair‘s The Reluctant Fundamentalist (IFC Films, 4.26). But you have to admit that you chuckled when George Clooney said “five words — randomly selected for additional screening” in Up In The Air….right? The kind of rueful laughter that says “yup, shitty as it is for Middle Eastern guys, that’s what airports are like.”
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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