Not to sound a disrespectful note but on a certain level this trailer for Michael Winterbottom‘s The Trip (IFC Films, theatres 6.10, On Demand 6.22) is a greater achievement than the film itself, which is mildly funny and actually rather good in a steady and confident and unforced way. But the trailer is funnier…sorry.
Rob Brydon‘s Woody Allen is perfect save for the fact he doesn’t sound like him. “I want a room with a view…I want to see a tree.”
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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