B Roll is a regular feature that digs into the deeper cuts and lesser-known films from legendary directors–the good, the bad, the brilliant. This week, writer Nathanael Hood takes time out on Memorial Day to […]
Bob Dylan recently celebrated his 75th birthday. As one of the latter 20th century’s most important songwriters’, it seems apropos to re-visit the biopic Bound for Glory, a rendering of Dylan’s greatest inspiration, singer-songwriter- professional […]
Ok, first a quick disclaimer: today is John Wayne’s birthday so, before actually diving into what our creative director calls “one of the most cancerous shit shows of all time”, understand that I’m actually a fan of […]
Growing up, I spent most of my adolescence exploring the music of my parents’ generation– The Who, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Joni Mitchell, Jimi Hendrix, and Janis Joplin, to name a few. Although I […]
A few years ago I attended a very special screening at Atlanta’s Fox Theatre: 1920’s The Mark of Zorro starring the original King of Hollywood, Douglas Fairbanks. Up until that point, I had never seen a Douglas Fairbanks film. […]
Richard Brooks’ The Happy Ending is an odd film snuggled somewhere between the romantic melodrama and the social problem films that came to define his career. Ostensibly the story of a crumbling marriage between bored, neglected […]
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