I have to say that Steve Carell did a good job of capturing the Real McCoy. You can smell the creepiness, the malignancy. Are DuPont’s extended video riffs (minus a questioner or any give-and-take conversational vibe) bizarre or what? Did he rehearse or is he reading off cue cards? Foxcatcher director Bennett Miller decided against showing us the cows and the fishing hole.
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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