This is obviously…okay, seemingly of a very high order. Maybe. If your idea of “a very high order” is a mixture of Runaway Train, the “political exiles on a long ride to the Urals in a cattle car” sequence from Dr. Zhivago (which incidentally contains my beloved “I am the only free man on this train!” scene with Klaus Kinski) and the “realistic” CG panache of Robert Zemeckis‘s Polar Express. I’m also figuring you can’t go wrong with Tilda Swinton in a scenery-chewing mode
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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