The Chicago Film Critics Association has gone with The Social Network for Best Picture, Best Director (David Fincher) and Best Adapted Screenplay (Aaron Sorkin). Colin Firth for Best Actor, Natalie Portman for Best Actress, Christian Bale for Best Supporting Actor….zzzzzzz. Hold on…True Grit‘s Hailee Steinfeld for Best Supporting Actress instead of Melissa Leo or Amy Adams? Okay.
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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