Speaking as a healthy double-vaxxed person, I intend to keep masking indoors for a while yet. I’m not sure when I’ll feel uninhibited about going maskless, but now feels too early. June, I’m thinking. Maybe July. I know for sure I’ll be…well, mostly maskless at Cinemacon (8.23 thru 8.26) and at the Telluride Film Festival (9.2 through 9.6). Does the fact that the fully vaxxed Bill Maher contracted Covid give me pause? Yes, but not that much.
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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