So who is “Film Fatale“, the new MCN blogger? Like other mysteriously-reclusive-women-friends-of-David–Poland I’ve barely spoken to in years past, the lady (I’m assuming she’s not a gay guy doing a Libby Gelman-Waxner) is being reclusive and, for the time being, hiding her identity. I’m not saying she’s busted or anything, but if you click on a 2.13.06 post called “Welcome to Hollywood” it says “posted by Justine.” It would be very easy to guess it’s Justine Elias. Perhaps too easy. I wonder…
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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