If you’re planning on catching Draft Day this weekend, watch these Moneyball clips and refresh your memory. This is how a really smart, grade-A sports movie walks, talks and soars. Draft Day isn’t a groaner. It’s appealing in some respects. Personable, not offensively bad, a few good lines and scenes. But this is what “confident” and “classy” and “upmarket” is…okay? 94% Rotten Tomatoes, motherfucker.
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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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