In Stephen Daldry‘s recently-opened The Reader, 18 year-old David Kross and 45 year-old Ralph Fiennes play younger and older versions of the same German-born character. Except Kross looks a lot more like a young version of Val Kilmer. His eyes clearly lack the wet, soulful, vaguely sad quality that Fiennes’ peepers have. So why cast him (or Fiennes) if they don’t even faintly resemble each other?
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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