9:15AM STV | No one around here really wants to have the Save-a-Fading-Hollywood-Icon conversation every day. But less than 24 hours after
Ed McMahon’s sad, bought-and-paid-for declaration that “I am officially a rapper,” the quiet dumping of Diane Keaton’s new film Smother (or the fact that there even is a Diane Keaton film called Smother) leaves us no real choice. The Oscar-winner’s latest is her fourth consecutive Straight-to-Flopz™ effort since 2007, as well as the third during that time (alongside Because I Said So and Mama’s Boy) in which she’s portrayed a suffocating harpy mum. Worse yet — depressingly so — Smother is the first Diane Keaton film in our adult lifetimes that we didn’t even know existed until after it opened. Not. Cool.
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