This kind of writing and acting happens way too infrequently. In general, I mean, and not just in the case of 25th Hour screenwriter David Benioff. It was mostly luck, something that just dropped into Benioff’s head. He was smart enough to grab it and use it and that was that. All creativity, good and bad, just plops into your brain out of nowhere, whenever it wants to. Ping! Here I am! Decide!
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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