In Hit and Run (Open Road, 8.24), a former getaway driver (Dax Shepard) is squeezed and/or guilt-tripped by former partners-in-crime (Bradley Cooper being one), busts out his Witness Protection Plan identity and takes off with his clueless girlfriend (Kristin Bell in the Cameron Diaz part), pursued by his old pals and a United States Marshal. Shepard and David Palmer co-wrote and co-directed. Tom Arnold, Kristin Chenoweth, Beau Bridges and David Koechner costar.
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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