My eye has always been for the progressive, and dare I say radical, in cinema, so it’s no surprise that many of my most memorable cinematic experiences are hard to find on the American distribution circuit. Censorship in general is something I’m really interested in; while I may defend a film like SALO to [...]

Filmmaker Tom Stern, the writer/director/co-producer of the quirky comedy ‘This Is A Business’, was recently profiled in a written podcast hosted by NY production company Renart Films. The interviewer, filmmaker Daniel Schechter, quizzed Tom on his reasons for making the film, the themes and subplots that came out during production, and his experiences as a [...]

“We have facts for those who think, arguments for those who reason; but he who cannot be reasoned out of his prejudices must be laughed out of them; he who cannot be argued out of his selfishness must be shamed out of it by the mirror of his hateful self held up relentlessly before his [...]

So it’s my second night in Missoula, Montana, a place every bit as surreal as all of David Lynch’s visions. (Lynch of course, is from Montana). What’s more surreal, however, is me skipping out on parties to come back to my weird, smokey hotel to blog as Pay It Forward plays silently on my t.v. [...]

With all the current craziness, the war, the election, the Grammy’s, the writer’s strike, the latest debacles in the life of fallen pop-princesses, it’s easy to overlook the passing of a phenomenal actor, Roy Scheider. Though he didn’t always pick the most outstanding projects (such as 1964’s The Curse of the Living Corpse), his work [...]

So I just saw THERE WILL BE BLOOD, and sure enough, it played really well against its hype. I did say the words,”I was pretty impressed”, and then sort of regret saying them, for fear of being in such overwhelming company - and then take back wanting to take the words back. The film’s good, [...]