Titles, I mean, that seem so deeply embedded in the hole of precious that they sounds like satires.
When Pomegranates Howl may be Australia’s Oscar submission, but this 2020 film is actually (a) an Afghan-Australian co-production, (b) written and directed by Granaz Moussavi, an Iranian woman, and (c) set in Kabul, which of course is a whole different (one could say horrific) thing now.
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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