For some reason, the new edgy seems to be boring the living crap out of the audience. I don’t know when this started, but it seems to be a pattern that emerged somewhere around 2004. Movies and TV shows have found new and interesting ways to slow plots to a crawl, mysteries never seem to resolve, [...]
 
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Last Saturday The Guardian published an article titled ‘Ten Rules for Writing Fiction’ consolidating advice from noted authors such as Elmore Leonard, Margaret Atwood, Helen Dunmore, Richard Ford, and Neil Gaiman. You can read the entire piece here. There’s some great stuff… some you might have heard before, but it’s always fantastic to hear it from [...] I don’t know how else to phrase it. The Dow Jones, or the stock market, or Wall Street, or whatever nomenclature you prefer, does impact independent filmmaking. I think that every once and a while the shiny artistic drive to create film clouds the business reality that’s necessary to get the whole thing done. We as [...] Two recent post-apocalyptic films The Road and The Book of Eli show a devastated wasteland covered in dirt, muck, and all other types of grit. I’m not here to discuss the films themselves, but how genre films, whether they be horror or science fiction, portray life after a civilization-ending event. These two films are just some recent [...] |
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