Lisa Joyce originally wasn’t too keen on playing Hilde Wangel, the mysterious muse/succubus/angel at the core of Henrik Ibsen’s notoriously difficult play The Master Builder. In an interview on the Criterion Collection release of Jonathan […]
The 1950s were arguably the most prolific decade, artistically speaking, of animator/director Chuck Jones’ career. It was the decade that saw Jones take certain stock Warner Bros. characters to new heights: he made Daffy Duck a […]
So it appears that Kevin Smith is going to remake The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension as a TV series for Amazon. This is the latest in a line of movies and […]
Randal Kleiser’s Summer Lovers is just further proof that characters don’t have to be interesting for movies to be made about them as long as they’re white, young, and beautiful. Take Michael Pappas (Peter Gallagher) […]
“A Star Is Born is a Hollywood story of, by, and for its people. It has the usual preface, attesting to the fictional quality of the characters and incidents depicted, but it is nonetheless the […]
by Sean Barron H.G. Wells is one of the most revered classic authors, and sits on the Mt. Rushmore of sci fi beside Jules Verne, Isaac Asimov and Ray Bradbury (some would put either Frank Herbert or […]
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