I’ll always be an admirer of Gavin O’Connor for Miracle, one of the best sports movies ever made because — this is important and fascinating — the hockey coach (Kurt Russell) was a bit of a stubborn, obstinate, broomstick-up-his-ass prick, and yet he brought it all home. I just hope O’Connor’s latest, which obviously stars Joel Edgerton (Animal Kingdom) and costars Tom Hardy (and not the other way around, as publicists for the film have it) doesn’t go in for too much hugging and weeping.
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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