Major differences between National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets and the trailer, according to N.Y. Times technology columnist David Pogue. “Just how different can a trailer be,” he asks, “without becoming false advertising?” My standard complaint is that trailers tend to make the films they’re selling seem much dumber and more primitive than they actually are. Deliberately, of course, because they’re always aimed at the slowest folks in the room.
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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