South by Southwest is the latest festival to fold its tent over fears of COVID-19. The annual film and music festival would have happened between Friday, 3.13 and Saturday, 3.21. How serious is the threat in Texas? Not very. It’s slight, in fact, but all those big companies panicked and bailed. Hollywood Elsewhere will boldly fly to Austin anyway to visit my son Dylan, who recently moved there from the Bay Area.
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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