Advance-review-wise it appears as if I chose a good week to be out of the country, at least in terms of the two big openers. Bryan Singer‘s X-Men Apocalypse and Tim Burton‘s Alice Through The Looking Glass both have lousy Rotten Tomatoes ratings, 52% and 48% respectively. The best-rated opener appears to be Ido Haar‘s Presenting Princess Shaw, a Magnolia-released doc about the YouTube star. It’s currently RT’d at 89%. If anyone has seen the doc, please advise.
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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