Broadway World has an exclusive video clip of the opening credits to Tim Burton‘s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Dreamamount, 12.21). It’ll certainly give you an idea about where the aesthetic emphasis lies, or at least what’s important to Burton. My favorite parts of the film have little if anything to do with vivid red plasma. I’m speaking of at least 95% of the running time.
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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