Joe Leydon
@joeleydon
Entertainment Editor at Cowboys & Indians, Film Critic for Variety, Immigrant's Son
Anne passed at 2:14. Her birthday was 2/14. She always had impeccable timing.
Blast from the Past: My original 1999 review of the Martin Scorsese/Paul Schrader classic "Bringing Out the Dead." As a former welfare worker, I found this movie occasionally brought back discomforting memories www.movingpictureshow.com?p=8613
Blast from the past: My original 1986 review of Michael Mann's "Manhunter." (Yes, they spelled Hannibal Lector as "Lektor" in this one.) www.movingpictureshow.com?p=9338
A blast from the past: My 1990 review of George Armitage's "Miami Blues" with Alec Baldwin, Fred Ward, and Jennifer Jason Leigh. www.movingpictureshow.com?p=9620
Trying (and failing) to look cool in the early 1970s while at Louisiana State University in New Orleans (now University of New Orleans).
Remember when a first-run movie might last 15 weeks (or more) in places like Shreveport?
I no longer have the heart to watch the news anymore tonight, so I am switching back and forth between The Weather Channel and Fox Weather. Stay warm, my friends.
Just finished talking to Kali Reis, who is totally badass in the ingenious and suspenseful "Mercy," which opens 1/23 at theaters and drive-ins everywhere. How's your day going?
George and I are celebrating Korean American Day, and invite you to do the same.
Archaeologists have uncovered this photograph of Willie Nelson at the first Christmas.
One of my all-time favorite movies from the 1960s. No joke: Saw it 3 times on a double bill with “Charley Bubbles” at the Gentilly Art Theater in my hometown of New Orleans.
I have a horrible suspicion that if my wife and son were in New Orleans right now, I’d be hearing from ICE. Eventually.