Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir — Again
Minimizing events does not remove them from consciousness.
Dustin Freeley
The Bling Ring — Celebrity in the Age of Information
Based on the article, “The Suspects Wore Louboutins,” Sofia Coppola’s 2013 film The Bling Ring follows a handful of teenagers through Calabasas, CA as they…
Caucus — The Celebritization of Politics
Politics: The game, the rouse, the celebrity.
Beyond the Screen: Adaptations Lost in Translation — The Road
Sacrificing powerful source material to appease the masses.
Bond Retrospective 20: Die Another Day
Like Timothy Dalton’s final Bond film, License to Kill, Pierce Brosnan’s final turn as Bond in Die Another Day, offers a departure from the familiar….
Bond Retrospective 19: The World is not Enough
If there were a marriage of Goldeneye and Tomorrow Never Dies, The World is not Enough would be the progeny produced. While there are action…
This is the End:
This is the End would be more appropriately titled, This is the Movie My Friends and I Would Make if We had a Lot of…
Beyond the Screen — Pop Meets the Void: A Portrait of the Artist in the Digital Age
Backing a project like Pop Meets the Void allows us a glimpse at the portrait of an artist in the Internet age.
Bond Retrospective 18: Tomorrow Never Dies
If nothing else, the Bond franchise teaches us that consistency is overrated, but perhaps this is the best way to keep drawing an audience. Looking…
Gravity: Isolated, but not Contained
A number of films that deal with isolation also deal with the fear of containment. Castaway pits Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks) on an island. Pi…