I can’t link or paste from an iPhone, but Slumdog Millionaire director Danny Boyle, producer Christian Colson and distributor Fox Searchlight have sent out a strongly worded response to the Telegraph story that appeared earlier today (and which I linked to three or four hours ago) about two kid actors allegedly having been paid dog wages for their performances. The essence of the refutation is that most of the long-term payment went to the kids’ education.
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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