Comic panels can communicate an extraordinary amount of information in a short period of time (Geoff Darrow estimated that the average comic panel gets about 7 seconds of viewing…), so...
One of the places where comics KICK movies & TV’s ass is the freedom in which its creators can focus stories on strong female characters, characters who can inhabit a...
MUSIC For music, this was a year that didn’t really grab me. Beyoncee’s last minute album drop was more powerful as a power of My Brand statement than anything else....
One of things that we like to hear about is the behind-the-scenes tales of how creative work gets made — ‘cause what goes on behind the scenes is many times...
Outside of Halle Berry’s CATWOMAN, the last, true female comic book superhero movie was SUPERGIRL from the early 80s. Roughly 30 years ago… and I wonder why the recent NBC...
As a young cinema purveyor and nascent filmmaker, art house films (particularly foreign art house) had such a dynamic allure it boggled my mind that more and more people in...
So Warner Brothers announced that Oscar-winning filmmaker/maligned actor Ben Affleck is going to replace Christian Bale as Batman in Zack Snyder’s sequel to MAN OF STEEL – BATMAN V SUPERMAN...
Filmmaker Paul Schrader (writer of TAXI DRIVER, writer/director of AMERICAN GIGOLO) just released a new film (directed by him, written by Brett Easton Ellis of AMERICAN PSYCHO and LESS THAN...
A few weeks back film industry titans Steve Spielberg and George Lucas were predicting that the Hollywood Studio System is on the verge of imploding, that films as we know...
The devil isn’t in the details, he’s hiding out in the process. There’s always a certain high degree of fascination with how artists work… what’s their process? What’s their inspiration?...
There are many a great things I can say about Jai Nitz and Greg Smallwood’s The Dream Thief (Dark Horse Comics), like the intricate and graphically powerful page layouts, the...
A few weeks ago my brother and I were watching this disturbing HBO documentary (view it here) called PARADISE LOST: The Child Murders of Robin Hill directed by Joe Berlinger...
Three distribution models recently come on the scene that are essentially no-brainers and should have been employed at least three if not five years ago. They are all digital distribution...
In the aftermath of 9/11, Hollywood has been very… shall we say “specific”… about the kinds of Terrorism on American Soil projects that get the greenlight. To a certain extent...
One of my earliest memories of a classic film was the 1988 restoration/re-release of David Lean’s incomparable epic — LAWRENCE OF ARABIA. A team led by Steve Spielberg pu up...