Sony Pictures Classics will distribute Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher, a dark true-life murder tale staring Channing Tatum, Steve Carell and Mark Ruffalo. The Annapurna producer will open on 12.20. SPC distributed Miller’s Capote, which was nominated for Best Picture and for which Phillip Seymour Hoffman (a.k.a. “Philly”) won a Best Actor Oscar. Miller’s Moneyball was also nominated for Best Picture, and if you ask me it should have won.
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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