Year of the Month: The Power of THE AVIATOR
You get a sense of Howard Hughes being Icarus with the waxed wings…He’s gotta fly…
Year of the Month: Sunil Patel on the Powerlessness of THE AVIATOR
I certainly chose an interesting time to get around to watching Martin Scorsese’s Howard Hughes…
The Friday Article Round-Up Will Offer Some Pleasant Distractions, Promise
I don’t need to remind everybody that there’s some unusual things going on out there.…
Miller’s 2019 Triple Features: Risky Business
Movies talk to each other. What did the films of 2019 have to say? This…
Taco Break: Your Favourite Male/Male Friendships In Movies
My favourite scene in The Irishman is when the corrupt and violent union leader profusely…
Guest Article: 18 Songs about Actors by David “Rosy Fingers” McFarlane
I love when songwriters reference pop culture. For some reason, songwriters tend to be more…
Mean Streets (Year Of The Month)
There’s a fairly common joke about how many debut novels are about introspective white guys…
What Is The Personality Type Of A Story, Part II: An Answer To A Question About Tone
A few months ago, I said I was messing about with Myers-Briggs again, and that…
The Scorsese Experience Returns: Casino
CHOCK FULL O’ SPOILERS On its release, Casino got the nickname Ca-seen-it. And it’s not…
Taco Break: Ambiguity and the Potential for Misreading
In 1987, Oliver Stone dissected the hyper-materialism of the 1980s with Wall Street, a film where…