Deep Analysis: The End of the Tour – Is it capital-T Truth or capital-B Bulls**t?
I really enjoyed James Ponsoldt’s The End of the Tour, which primarily covers the last days of David Foster Wallace’s 1996 book tour ...
Tag: writers
RIP The Dissolve (2013-2015)
The Dissolve was one of the best places on the internet for intelligent, funny, in-depth, and insightful film criticism and features. This morning, ...
Trailers
See Jason Segel’s award-caliber performance in the trailer for The End of the Tour
The End of the Tour was a major hit at Sundance, leading to rave reviews for stars Jesse Eisenberg and Jason Segel, who ...
Trailers
Trailer for Listen Up Philip lets Jason Schwartzman be wonderfully acerbic
Listen Up Philip stars the always fantastic Jason Schwartzman as a self-absorbed, sarcastic writer and the equally fantastic Elizabeth Moss as his equally ...
Features
Book Review: SCREENWRITING 101 By Film Crit Hulk!
I first heard about Film Crit Hulk about a year ago. I had written an article about why Tom Hooper should have been ...
J.R.R. Tolkien film in the works
With basically anything that has the name J.R.R. Tolkien attached to it printing money and a pretty interesting life story it’s easy to ...
The Purge writer/director returning for the sequel
After a sequel to The Purge was announced shortly after it made its original run in theaters (and I apologized for it), we ...
Fifty Shades of Grey loses Charlie Hunnam, needs rewrites
Over the weekend, Universal’s Fifty Shades of Grey motion picture (out August 2014 as of now) has been going through a few issues. ...
Trailers
Trailer: The Counselor starring Fassbender, Pitt, Bardem
In The Counselor, Michael Fassbender stars as a lawyer who finds himself in way over his head when he gets involved with the ...
Bret McKenzie writing a fairy tale comedy musical script
In an interview with the dudes over at Collider, Bret McKenzie, of Flight of the Conchords and The Muppets fame, revealed that he ...
Flixist Discusses: Save the Cat & formulaic storytelling
The summer movie season is coming to a close, and you probably noticed something about the blockbusters you watched: a lot of them ...
Paul Schrader & Spike Lee may do Clarence Thomas film
I unfortunately couldn’t get to the world premiere of Paul Schrader’s new (and quite possibly schlocky) film The Canyons, starring Lindsay Lohan and ...