TV Characters Don’t Have Text History. This Is Not OK
The immediate question that arises any time this problem appears is, how could the writers be so lazy? They sweat so hard creating a richly imagined world, only to rip us out of it by…
The immediate question that arises any time this problem appears is, how could the writers be so lazy? They sweat so hard creating a richly imagined world, only to rip us out of it by…
It’s not surprising that Hollywood has been hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic. After all, movie sets typically require hundreds of people coming together from all around the world to work in close proximity to…
That’s all business-side multiversing, but I think some of the in-story kind is on its way, too. I have nothing but my own speculation here. Disney’s Star Wars arm has promised a krayt dragon–sized bolus…
In Los Angeles, the corner of Melrose and Harper has become a tourist destination to rival the Eiffel Tower, or the graffitied remains of the Berlin Wall. Rather than an architectural marvel or a piece…
So what’s a guy like Joe to do when he lands on his enfelined feet in Soul? The exact thing the genre has prepared him for: patch up family bonds. Joe wasn’t a fully actualized…
Keanu Reeves has never been worse—which, in his special case, is understood to mean better—than he was in Johnny Mnemonic. The 1995 cyberpunk almost-classic captures a pre-Matrix, pre-Cyberpunk 2077 Reeves at his most cartoonishly buttoned-up,…
Over the past 12 months, cinephiles have had to completely transform how they consume their media of choice. As Covid-19 shuttered theaters all over the world, movie lovers could no longer float between multiplexes and…
He's such a wonderful actor. I was actually discussing a bigger project with James that was very close to happening while I was working on this script. When that other film ended up postponed, I…
Another thing that’s proven wildly popular at virtual events? Online gaming. ReedPop, the company that puts on NYCC, also produces the PAX video game conventions. This year, those conventions morphed into PAX Online, which streamed…
Though awards season is already upon us, it certainly doesn’t feel that way. Like so many other things in 2020, Hollywood is in the midst of a sea change. Even if you wanted to, it…