In the view of ThePunch.com’s Sam Cleveland, 2009 was “the year the ‘chick flick’ smartened up…rounded female characters showed up in everything from straight-out Oscar bait to rock ’em-sock ’em horror flicks, while some of the best films of the year centered around women and their distinct set of needs and challenges.” The September Issue, 500 Days of Summer, Drag Me to Hell, Whip it, Coco Before Chanel, Julia and Julie, An Education, etc.
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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