The story of Estibaliz Carranza, a 34-year-old Mexican-Spanish woman known as the “Ice Lady,” is a metaphor for women everywhere being let down and betrayed by deadbeat men, and it could be turned around into a black Pedro Almodovar comedy. Penelope Cruz or Angelina Jolie could play Carranza. Chainsawed bodies buried under the ice cream parlor…are you kidding? Sex, lunacy, infidelity, the general deflation of modern relationships, a bit of Arsenic and Old Lace…bingo.
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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