Your New Reboot/Sequel/Franchise is Not Sacred
Nathan Rabin over at The Dissolve wrote about how people should stop saying that their…
Is There an Obligation to History?
I still haven’t seen American Sniper, but some of the discussion around it comes up…
The Damaged Legacy of the Emotional Movie
The English Patient, Life Is Beautiful, American Beauty, Slumdog Millionaire, Titanic, Shakespeare in Love, Forrest Gump All of the above…
Why I Oscarpalooza
Saturday, I saw The Tale of Princess Kaguya. Sunday, I saw the third Hobbit movie…
The Unexpected Virtue of Realism: The Strange Course of Emmanuel Lubezki
Emmanuel Lubezki will likely be walking home with his second Oscar in a row on…
2014, the Year in Cinematography: Part 1
This year gave us plenty of well-shot films. Here, The Narrator will take a look…
Hollywood’s diversity problem
Statistics At the beginning of 2014, UCLA released a Diversity report for Hollywood films released in 2011.…
Last Week, The Oscars Demonstrated Extremely Troubling Regress
This week, perhaps the most notable and talked about snub (aside from The LEGO Movie…
A Raspberry to the Razzies
The official website of the Golden Raspberries Awards, better known as the Razzies, looks like…
Screw You, Russell Crowe
I don’t go seeking out those Facebook “what fill-in-the-blank are you” quizzes. Even I have…