Everyone’s (NOT) a critic now
I have a rather large document about film criticism sitting on my hard drive which I keep adding to with the intention of turning it into something readable and (hopefully) interesting. In the meantime though I felt compelled to commit some loose thoughts to a post after stumbling across a piece by Neal Gabler on … Read more
Writing Scripts To Be Read Vs. Writing Scripts To Be Performed
“I’m not writing something that’s meant to be read; I’m writing something that’s meant to be performed… Just having written a screenplay is no more satisfying to me than if a songwriter handed out pieces of sheet music.” (Aaron Sorkin, The Hollywood Reporter) I’ve read a number of scripts and early script reviews before seeing … Read more
Why Sucker Punch Deserves A Second Chance
To the discerning film fan the modern multiplex can be a depressing and woefully uninteresting place to quench one’s thirst for cinematic pleasures. Filled as it so often is with unrelentingly banal and superficial Hollywood spectacles that fail to even be the simplistic fireworks displays that they appear to promise to be. To find a … Read more
Once Upon a Time in the West Review
From just the first few minutes into Once Upon a Time in the West its magnificence is immediately evident. What is perhaps Leone’s best western opens with a beautifully orchestrated sequence that sees three unnamed gunmen awaiting the arrival of train and one of its passengers, ‘Harmonica’ (Charles Bronson). Leone builds tension in this scene … Read more