Now that everyone’s had a gander at Pirates 2, it’s time for everyone to submit a 50 to 75-word quickie review. Keep ’em tight, but also include observations about what others were saying on the way out. What was the vibe in the theatre during the show? How many people took separate cell-phone, bathroom and popcorn breaks? C’mon, be honest… were the critics who slammed it all that wrong? Or are the ticket-buyers just loving it to death ?
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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