Sometime in the recent past Mark Harris posted the 12.29 tweet from American Sniper screenwriter Jason Hall that explained why Clint Eastwood used the robot baby in that bizarre hospital room scene between Bradley Cooper and Sienna Miller. I would have posted this yesterday but Hall deleted the original tweet, which gave me pause. The last time I’ve seen a baby this fake-looking was in Larry Cohen‘s It’s Alive (’74).
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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