This is the End
The Way Way Back
Frances Ha
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
The Hangover Part III
Love is All You Need
Monday, May 27, 2013 - 12:05am | 0 Comments

To this day I still wonder how Suzanne Bier’s In a Better World trumped Biutiful, Dogtooth, and Incendies for the 2010 Best Foreign Oscar.

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Supporting Characters
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 5:00am | 0 Comments

Directors have dreams and producers have products. One slaves over the same story for month or years to express a grand idea. The other counts pennies to deliver a concise product to earn a profit. Everyone else is in between, contracted to perform duties that will ultimately assist the director and producer, as a team and individually.

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Star Trek Into Darkness
Wednesday, May 22, 2013 - 11:30pm | 0 Comments

Star Trek: Into Darkness reviewed for the Perihelion Science Fiction Magazine. 

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PopCircle: Social Cataloging Convergence
Saturday, May 18, 2013 - 5:00am | 0 Comments

I see many of my followers and the film critics that I follow on Twitter using a particular service called Letterboxd. It is a site that functions as another social media network where you can mark and review the films you’ve seen, follow those whose opinions you trust, and create lists however you like. It’s a great service actually.

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Upstream Color
Thursday, May 16, 2013 - 5:00am | 2 Comments

It has been nearly a decade since Shane Carruth dropped his 2004 ultra-low-budget, ultra complex sci-fi time travel thriller Primer on the Sundance Film Festival. Between that time and now, he found difficulty working with studios and the weight of larger budgets when developing the now abandoned A Topiary.

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