Shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, shit.Even on the occasions when he was wrong, he was the smartest, the most persuasive, the wittiest, the most literate, the most compassionate of any…
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Not Dan O'Bannon.That one can have a hand in both one of the greatest of late-20th-century sci-fi/horror films, and a hand in one of the most risible, could just be…
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David O. Selznick gave the Tulsa ingenue the name Jennifer Jones, and thereafter compelled her to embody his most pious and baroque fantasies of womanhood, from sainted Bernadette to ghostly…
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Were we just talking about the fact that every film critic has a blind spot or ten? Yes, in the context of my 70-best-of-the-decade list, which still awaits it promised…
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I hope I'm not sounding like I'm damning with faint praise when I point out that the signal quality of Edward Woodward's screen acting was a kind of plainness, a…
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Dear Suzy,I guess that probably most of the people who read this blog aren't aware of who you are—Christ, I just can't write about you in the past tense—and of…
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