I’m a little late to my Oscar Blu-rays, but Phantom Thread joins The Shape of Water, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri and The Post as a fine example of 2017 cinema. It’s great to see 70mm film represented in HD. It’s bright. The subtleties between natural, artificial and firelight are noticeable. The actors look like […]
I got to know Walt Goggins (he lets me call him Walt) on the television side covering The Shield and Justified year after year. Goggins was always attentive, remembered me and gave a firm handshake, looking directly in the eye whenever we had a new interview. Even now that I no longer have hair or […]
Bruce Dern is one of The Hateful Eight. He plays General Sandy Smithers, a Confederate general who’s still bitter his side lost The Civil War. So when Major Marquis Warren (Samuel L. Jackson) shows up, they have some beef even before the hateful situation transpires. Warren ends up at Minnie’s Haberdashery after hitching a ride with […]