We all recently ignored the ten-year anniversary of Mark Pellington‘s The Mothman Prophecies. I will always love this film for its all-around creepiness, and for the genius of the name Indrid Cold. That has to be one of the best names ever created by anyone for any purpose. Whoever heard of an alien with a first and last name, let alone a cool-sounding one? Until this film came out, I hadn’t.
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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