"When they look at you, they see what they want to be. When they look at me, they see what...
Read moreI think it’s safe to say that William Friedkin had one of the more star-crossed careers of any director from...
Read moreThere’s no way around it, Primal Fear is pulp. I don’t mean that as a pejorative—I love pulp. But boy,...
Read moreJohn Huston was wheelchair bound and on portable oxygen when he directed his adaptation of James Joyce’s short story “The...
Read moreOn the surface, Witness looks like a mash-up of two tropes: the good cop protecting an eye-witness from danger, and...
Read moreI was recently asked about the scene where George Clooney as Michael Clayton stops off by the side of the...
Read moreI’m going to ask you to stick with me for a moment. Zero Dark Thirty is the terrorist version of...
Read moreAs an adolescent, Barney Miller was a staple in my household. If memory serves correctly (always a bit of a...
Read moreThe recent death of Pele, the greatest footballer ever, brought to my mind a teen drama from 1985 starring Matthew...
Read more"I think there's a storm -- seems like it's a-brewin'." -- Barbara Jean (Ronee Blakley) I first encountered Robert Altman's...
Read moreFew actors in the history of cinema have had a hot streak like Al Pacino did from 1971 to 1979....
Read more“He simply felt that if he could carry away the vision of the spot of earth she walked on, and...
Read moreIn the late spring of 1989, my best friend Barry and I walked into Ready Theater in the small town...
Read more“How many children had Lady Macbeth?” is a notorious phrase among literary critics. While some have considered the question seriously,...
Read moreThere he goes, showing us the ugly again. These are words I seem to remember Brad Pitt saying about Sean...
Read moreOn the surface, Children of a Lesser God may look like a romantic drama about communication, and while it is that, it’s...
Read moreI know at the time many considered Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn’s massively successful novel a beach read or an airport...
Read moreHas there ever been a more transgressive director than Jane Campion? Whether you are talking about Sweetie, An Angel At...
Read moreThe Color of Money is an outlier in the career of Martin Scorsese. While few think it’s an outright bad...
Read moreThere is a version of Ali that would have pleased almost everyone. A safe version that played like a ‘greatest...
Read moreI don't like the different sexes in the same category either. Stupid stupid stupid. It might even be laughable and…
Well, the AMPAS gave their most prestigious award to one of the worst and most silly movie in cinema's history.
Eh, the social pressure is not towards awarding white actors, so that would make little sense, unless voters were trying…
Based on your argument, the absent of diversity, like the presence of diversity, is a significant factor, so why don't…
Wright is such an underrated actor. He has been putting in the work for decades now, delivering an eccletic set…