Swinging like Spider-Man from the top of a Mumbai skyscraper for a shot in Mission Impossible 4: Ghost Protocol is a ballsy thing. But will anyone who hasn’t seen this video believe, when they see the finished film, that Tom Cruise actually hung his ass over the side? These days seeing is not believing. Every ambitious action shot or complex composition is presumed to have been CG’ed to some extent. Nobody believes anything.
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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