Joe Leydon
Film Critic at Variety
Senior Writer at Cowboys & Indians
Film critic: @Variety. Member: @criticschoice, @HoustonCritics. Board member: @indiecriticsUSA. Top Critic: @RottenTomatoes. So where to now, St. Peter?
Articles
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3 weeks ago |
variety.com | Joe Leydon
In recent years, there have been a number of dramas and documentaries detailing the appalling mistreatment of Native American children forcibly held in church- and state-run Indian Boarding Schools — ranging from the Taylor Sheridan-produced “1923” to the Oscar-nominated “Sugarcane” — for such historical overviews to comprise a subgenre.
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3 weeks ago |
flipboard.com | Joe Leydon
5 hours agoYolanda Saldívar, the woman convicted of killing Selena, is denied paroleThe Mexican American singer known as the “Queen of Tejano" was fatally shot in 1995 at a motel in Corpus Christi, Texas.
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1 month ago |
variety.com | Joe Leydon
During my interview a while back with a director of small-budget Westerns, he explained to me that if you keep your costs down low enough and, better still, cast a recognizable character actor or country music star — not a superstar, but someone recognizable — to promote in packaging and advertising, you could turn a profit just on DVD and Blu-ray sales. “You do it right,” he said, “and you make your money back from Redbox and big-box stores.
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1 month ago |
variety.com | Joe Leydon
Not unlike an attentive bird who spots a smidgen of sustenance in a pile of cattle dung, director George Gallo and co-scripter Josh Postner’s new comedy retrieves a viable comic premise in the deservedly obscure and irredeemably wretched 1982 comedy “The Comeback Trail.” Unfortunately, their hugely enjoyable remake, in name only, was stuck in distribution limbo for the better part of five years, despite a stellar cast that includes Oscar winners Robert De Niro, Tommy Lee Jones and Morgan...
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1 month ago |
ca.news.yahoo.com | Joe Leydon
Anyone who’s ever been skeptical about the safety of capitalizing on cryptocurrency will have their worst suspicions confirmed by “Cold Wallet,” a shrewd and suspenseful thriller about three would-be working-class vigilantes determined to retrieve their investments from an amoral scammer.
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