Getting the jump on arthouse lesbo action before Blue Is The Warmest Color opens stateside, Jamie Babbit‘s Breaking The Girls (7.26, IFC Midnight, iTunes, SundanceNow, Amazon Streaming) is apparently some kind of Strangers On A Train riff. Costarring Agnes Bruckner and Madeline Zima, it’s heing hyped as a “wild and crazy” thriller with hot sex scenes and “a bloody tangle of scheming and murder,” etc. Who’s Guy and who’s Bruno?
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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