Did the Hollywood western truly die or has it simply morphed into something palatably contemporary? The days of stagecoaches, spurs, and Smith & Wessons may be long gone (I personally consider Clint Eastwood’s 1992 masterpiece
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CREATIVE PRODUCING: Just What Does a Producer Do Anyway?
It takes far too long to read doesn’t it? In the time it takes me to plod through the typical novel, I can probably watch at least 5 average-length movies and 10+ episodes of TV.
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FANTASIA: KRYPTIC a Mystery Best Left Unsolved
Sometimes when I review movies for this site, I get the feeling that the dish I’m experiencing wasn’t quite ready to be pulled from the oven. Maybe it was the sub-film school-level graphics (news articles
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MOTHER OF ALL SHOWS Not Quite Ready for Primetime
I have a certain appreciation for movies and TV that opt to tell their stories through unique lenses; filtering the trials and travails of the characters through unorthodox methods of storytelling. Examples include through musical
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CLICKBAIT: UNFOLLOWED Skewers Influencer Culture
How many social media followers do you have? If you’re like me, It’s perhaps less than 300 consisting largely of friends and family plus a few strangers you’ve picked up along the way. But if
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Nobody Wants to Talk About Jacob Appelbaum
To call Jacob Appelbaum “paranoid” would be understating the situation to a fault. This former colleague of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has lived in self-imposed exile in Berlin for nearly a decade to escape growing
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