Let me be absolutely clear: I can’t stand the writing and philosophy of Ayn Rand. I attempted to read Atlas Shrugged, getting 63 pages deep before I threw the book across the room and …
Right now there is no shortage of young adult novels set in futuristic dystopias. Hoping, praying that they have the next Hunger Games, the studios are snatching up these properties hoping they can facilitate another …
It has been said that casting is 90% of directing. Using that metric, Shawn Levy had most of his work done by the time he finally started shooting This is Where I Leave You, and …
Last year, after an unnecessary delay of two years, audiences finally got to see You’re Next, a horror film by writer Simon Barrett and director Adam Wingard. While not a revelatory work, You’re Next was …
Kevin Smith has become an easy target for criticism lately. Once the cinematic ambassador for geek culture, Smith has mostly turned his back to cinema, and cinema to him, in favor of podcasting and pursuing …
In the opening scene of Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard’s quasi bio-doc, Nick Cave pronounces, over delicate voice-over, “At the end of the 20th Century I ceased to be a human being.” Didn’t we all? …
It’s well known that The Monkees weren’t assembled like a regular band. Originally conceived as an idea for a television show by Bob Rafelson in 1962, the idea lay dormant until A Hard Day’s Night …
Sometimes a tragic event surrounding a production can overshadow that very work. The last film completed before the sudden passing of James Gandolfini, The Drop has enough going for it that it doesn’t garner respect …
It’s been 3 years since we last visited Winter, the dolphin with the prosthetic tale and the rest of the aquatic life at the Clearwater Marine Hospital. This go around, in the based on a …