Gold Derby‘s Tom O’Neil‘s Gold Derby has posted speculative rundowns of 2012 Oscar nominees, as I did a few months ago when I posted the 2012 Oscar Balloon. I’m perplexed by the prediction that Laura Linney‘s performance in Roger Michell‘s Hyde Park on Hudson is the leading contender for Best Actress. Has anyone anywhere seen any portion of Linney’s performance? Or read the Hyde Park script? Or anything?
Roughly two months ago a very early draft of Eric Roth‘s screenplay for Killers of the Flower Moon (dated 2.20.17,...
More »
Frances McDormand‘s Fern was strong but mule-stubborn and at the end of the day self-destructive, and this stunted psychology led...
More »
Can’t decide which performance is better, although I’ve always leaned toward Tina Vitale, her cynical New Jersey moll behind the...
More »
Two days ago (1.19) a Facebook tribute congratulated Tippi Hedren for having reached her 94th year (blow out the candles!)...
More »
A friend suggested a list of the Ten Best American Crime Flicks of the ‘70s. By which he meant films...
More »
I’ve never been able to give myself over to Sam Peckinpah’s Major Dundee, a 1965 Civil War–era western, and I’ve...
More »