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This column is intended to analyze the role women play in film — both in front of and behind the camera, above and below the line. But it would be remiss of me to ignore the ever burgeoning world of television (both on air and on the internet). To analyze women in film is to […]
This past week, Lucasfilm and Disney released a teaser trailer for one of its upcoming Star Wars offshoot films, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. I don’t pretend to be the biggest Star Wars fan; in fact, I’m not one at all. It wasn’t a series that I grew up with as a kid, although […]
If you told me you’d never heard the name Max Landis, I wouldn’t be that surprised. He is the 30-year-old son of John Landis (the prolific 1980s director responsible for movies like Trading Places and The Blues Brothers) and a screenwriter — and screenwriters aren’t generally famous. They’ve long since been relegated to the back […]
Let me start off by saying that I am a huge fan of J. J. Abrams — I hope that one day I will be able to be in a room and pitch an idea to the man largely responsible for my choice to come to film school in the first place. His reboot of […]
This week, I decided to take a detour from my usual topic of film and talk about Netflix’s latest original series, entitled Love, co-created by everybody’s favorite comedy uncle Judd Apatow and real-life married couple Paul Rust and Lesley Arfin (both of whom you’ve no doubt seen onscreen and/or heard of their work). I had […]
On Friday, Japanese film studio Studio Ghibli released Only Yesterday, theoretically their latest film in a long line of celebrated, classic animated films, such as Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke and Howl’s Moving Castle. However, Only Yesterday, in fact, was made in 1991 and only released in the States this year. Only Yesterday tells the story […]
Although I normally talk about women in film, I’m veering off a little bit this week to talk about women in television. HBO’s famously infamous (or maybe, infamously famous) Girls, premiered the first episode of its fifth season on Sunday. This isn’t a review of the season premiere — rather it’s an exploration of precisely […]
Valentine’s Day weekend is no doubt a movie weekend — whether single or with someone, you’re bound to land somewhere (theater or couch) for a couple hours of escape. For studios and production companies, the Valentine’s Day movie slate is an important one. “The date movie” is a concept we’re all familiar with, which, on […]
Any discussion of the #OscarsSoWhite campaign at this point probably sounds like a broken record. The issue has been so heavily debated in the past seven days, but it still bears discussion. Last week, I wrote about the Academy’s possibility of inflaming industry veterans with their hasty decision to cut off members’ voting privileges if […]
In an age where the internet finds deep pride in being a hotbed for political and sociological outrage, the collective Twitter and Facebook communities did not fail to disappoint this week when they voiced their complaints over the so called #OscarsSoWhite diversity catastrophe that plagued both this and last year’s homogenous Academy Award nominations. Despite […]