If you don't think someone fresh off an Oscar nomination would spend five years to follow her critically acclaimed fictional narrative with the first feature-length documentary of her career, you don't know Debra Granik....
“Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover” is a proverb whose simple existence proves the fact impressionable souls will do so without fail. This monthly column focuses on the film industry’s willingness to capitalize on this truth, releasing one-sheets to serve as not representations of what audiences are to expect, but as propaganda to fill seats. Oftentimes they fail miserably....
Five years after writer/director Debra Granik's sophomore effort Winter's Bone earned four Oscars nominations including Best Picture, she returns to the big scr...
Much of the success attributed to Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles stems from it using its time travel-centric mythology to erase the franchise's failure...
After finding success from his debut feature Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale—an expansion of a world he created through two previous shorts all released together by Oscilloscope—Finnish writer/director Jalmari Helander did what many European filmmakers do....
Something Steve Harvey said on a recent episode of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee really struck me: "Tragedy strikes. I got news for you—we have the jokes tha...
Despite being rated PG-13 in America, Jalmari Helander's Big Game should target audiences between 10-15 like Dan Smith's Young Adult novelization of the film. B...
In the six years between Snow Angels and Prince Avalanche, writer/director David Gordon Green became a collaborator on a string of comedies of which he was not credited as a writer. In the two years since he's utilized that process with drama Joe and now Manglehorn....
As all good sequels must learn, the key to success is delivering on the promise set forth by the original while also providing something fresh and improved. Jus...
“Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover” is a proverb whose simple existence proves the fact impressionable souls will do so without fail. This monthly column focuses on the film industry’s willingness to capitalize on this truth, releasing one-sheets to serve as not representations of what audiences are to expect, but as propaganda to fill seats. Oftentimes they fail miserably....
