Like
the warring Japanese dojos depicted throughout the Karate Kid franchise, a growing disconnect exists between those who
wish to learn a fighting style as a...
We
all like to think we have control—kings of our proverbial castles. It's all a
ruse, though. We're actually slaves to a system that seems more and more likel...
The
darkened screen is almost pitch black before we can begin to discern shapes in
the distance. First it's wooden stakes in the ground at what looks to be a
t...
When it was announced Paul Thomas Anderson was making a high school movie, one may have conjured ideas of his take on The Breakfast Club, Dazed and Confused, F...
After collaborating with Yorgos Lanthimos on Dogtooth as a second assistant director and script supervisor, Christos Nikou has made a career the last decade wo...
No
matter how staunch your atheism, there still exists a surefire way to get you
believing in God. It's not hearing His voice or seeing His work, though. Those...
Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about movie stars and filmmakers and not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the...
Yes, that headline is correct. Orson Welles, who passed away 35 years ago this fall, has a newly completed film and it's coming to fall festivals. Hopper/ Well...
With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options—not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves–each week we highlight the noteworthy titles ...
We
live in an era where celebrity has become more about fame than talent as those
wishing for adulation do what they can to mimic the greats that came before t...