This is why I love…no, worship Terry Gilliam. In an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle‘s Hugh Hart, Gilliam says “he hates most computer-generated imagery. He hated The Patriot, though he grew to love its star, Heath Ledger. He thinks mammoth battle sequences have been ‘done to death,’ doesn’t like Men in Black‘s ‘smart-ass’ humor [and] has no patience for ‘macho’ action movies.” Yes! But on the other hand…
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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