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Edge-of-a-steep-cliff character actor Peter Greene was “found” dead yesterday in his East Village apartment. The N.Y. Daily News broke the story, but my first awareness came from Mark Ebner, a onetime friend of Greene’s, on Facebook. Greene had “demons”, as the saying goes. Smack and crack in the ’90s and perhaps beyond. There was a…

If I could spread the Best Supporting Oscar wealth by way of re-categorizing, I would arrange for Sentimental Value‘s Stellan Skarsgard to win the traditional BSP trophy with One Battle After Another‘s Benicio del Toro winning a Best Supporting Underground Smuggler Chill Bro Oscar. How do you pronounce Yvonne Villarreal‘s last name again? I’m not…

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…

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.

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…

“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…

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…

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…