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  • Not Worth The Ticket Price

    Christopher Nolan’s six-minute Odyssey prologue is currently playing in IMAX theatres that are showing (choke, gag) Sinners and One Battle After Another. Well, there’s no effing way I’m paying $20something to catch Sinners again and I’ve already seen OBAA twice so eff that jazz. It’s being reported that the full prologue will be attached to…


  • Delayed Remembrance

    Legendary architect Frank Gehry died exactly a week ago at age 96. His spirit ascended from inside his home in Santa Monica. I don’t know why I didn’t jump on this right away as I’ve always loved Gehry’s creations and was deeply moved and honored to meet him in Toronto 19 years ago — a…


  • Paul Dano Has Been Reborn…He’s Grown Wings!

    Ethan Hawke‘s Dano riff begins at 1:35…Will Hawke’s Lorenz Hart performance snag the Best Actor Oscar?…it’s either him or Timothee Chalamet.


  • “No Particular Place To Go” — Chuck Berry


  • Keitel, Galt, HE, Von Trier


  • Lizza-Nuzzi Continuation

    In a “live” chat this morning with Telos subscribers, Olivia Nuzzi’s seemingly revenge-driven ex-fiancé Ryan Lizza asked for and replied to various questions. Here’s what I asked: “Boiled way down, what in your view is Olivia’s default rationale or susceptibility when it comes to older guys…Olbermann, yourself, RFK, Sanford? One naturally presumes that her relationship…


  • Well Put

    “The acting in Hamnet feels stagey until the movie reaches an actual stage, at which point the earthen, feral, ardent work that Jessie Buckley has been doing reaches its apogee. Agnes witnesses, at last, what her absent husband has been up to in the wake of their family’s tragedy. And the way Buckley registers what’s…


  • Faster, Faster

    There’s an obvious affinity between Alfred Hitchcock, Robert Burks and George Tomasini‘s handling of the mountain road chase in To Catch A Thief (’55) and the Florida coast beach-speeding scene in Hitch’s Notorious, which was shot by Ted Tetzlaff and edited by Theron Warth. Cary Grant riding shotgun both times; the laid-back Grace Kelly and…


  • George Harrison’s “So Sad”

    I saw Ella McCay a few hours ago. I was the only one there so I had my phone on the whole time, although I watched the film fairly closely and carefully. For a guy with his phone on. It was agony to sit through, of course, but I wasn’t feeling sorry for myself. I…


  • #MeToo


  • 2026 Maybes, Uh-Ohs, Unknowns, Can’t-Trust-Ems

    In addition to last night’s posting of HE’s 20 most anticipated films of 2026, here’s a rundown of 24 more…four that seem extra-interesting (Ben Affleck‘s Animals, Danny Boyle‘s Ink, David O. Russell‘s Madden, Laszlo Nemes‘ Moulin) plus 20 randomly chosen films that feel like vague problems or slight disappointments but what do I actually know?…


  • 20 Likeliest 2026 Keepers

    The common consensus is that 2025 has been a fairly weak year. It seems safe to say, however, that 2026 will be a much stronger one, at least by intuitive HE gut criteria. At least 20 qualitative humdingers, by my count, and an impressive roster of grade-A directors (Inarritu, Fincher, Guadagnino, Spielberg, Nolan, Mungiu, Farhadi,…