The reason Michael Bay’s The Island (DreamWorks, 7.22) is sneaking nationwide this Saturday (7.9) is because it’s not tracking very well, partly because Ewan MacGregor and Scarlett Johansson are “industry stars” who don’t put butts in seats. I hear it’s not quite the greatest film of the 21st Century, but it must be doing fairly well with Average-Joe audiences or they wouldn’t sneak it to begin with.
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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