My sense of things when I wrote my Water for Elephants pan two days ago was that Christoph Waltz had (a) erred by playing the Hans Landa card again or (b) has no other cards in his deck. But goofing on it somehow makes it less bothersome. Waltz will have his best shot at putting Landa to bed in Roman Polanski‘s Carnage (formerly known as God of Carnage).
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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