The eight feature films of Quentin Tarantino, from Reservoir Dogs through The Hateful Eight, present an alternate America defined by three animating energies: crime, racism, and violence. At present, media acts as every child’s third, most beloved parent, […]
In Episode #15 of the BPoFD Podcast, managing editor Carmen Petaccio sits down with Greg Zuk, producer of the upcoming feature film Bone Tomahawk. Highlights include discussions of directorial vision in independent cinema, the trials of a 21-day film shoot, and […]
Midway on her life’s journey, a woman finds herself in a dark wood, the right road lost. By no choice of her own, she finds herself in Juarez, a city where even heavily armed women can […]
In Split, the latest psychological thriller from writer-director M. Night Shyamalan, James McAvoy plays Kevin, “a sufferer of dissociative personality disorder” who kidnaps teenage girls and subjects them to a variety of torments, the specifics of which […]
Earlier this week, Esquire published a profile of the actor Miles Teller, the star of this summer’s Fantastic Four and last year’s Oscar-nominated Whiplash. Running over 2000 words, the piece reads, at best, like a botched hatchet job executed […]
1. WHAT MOVIE THIS REVIEW IS ABOUT James Ponsoldt’s The End of the Tour, written by Donald Margulies, based on Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself by David Lipsky, featuring Jesse Eisenberg and Jason Segel. Financed by […]
If it takes a kind of genius to strike gold, then consider Judd Apatow a genius. In the fifteen years since the cancellation of Freaks and Geeks, that altar before which all unduly cancelled TV shows […]
