Viacom’s $1.6 billion purchase of DreamWorks SKG yesterday (Friday, 12.9) is so important a story and of such vital interest to the guy on the street …it’s so important that I’m jumping right on it, 16 or 17 hours after the story broke yesterday evening. The shifting of funds from one super powerful group of rich Hollywood elitists to another group of rich super powerful Hollywood elitists …if this isn’t earth-shaking news, what would be?
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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