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Category Archives: Hollywood
The Man on the Floor: Peter Berg and the Cinema of Competence
Peter Berg (b. 1964) works as a director, producer, writer, and actor. His films and television share a subject. He studies how organizations function under pressure, what happens when systems fail, and why some men keep doing their jobs while … Continue reading
The City of Private Rooms
Los Angeles in 2026 holds a set of overlapping prestige worlds, each with its own gatekeepers, its own real estate, its own theory of why its members deserve the room. The most powerful figures sit in several of these worlds … Continue reading
Harry Knowles and the Birth of Networked Fandom
Harry Knowles (b. 1971) is an American film commentator, internet entrepreneur, and founder of the website Ain’t It Cool News. He stands at the transition from twentieth-century entertainment journalism to digitally networked fan culture. Through his site he showed that … Continue reading
David Poland and the Reinvention of Entertainment Journalism
David Poland (b. 1964) is a transitional figure in American entertainment journalism. He occupies the unsettled ground between the declining authority of the twentieth-century trade press and the rise of decentralized digital commentary. Across more than three decades he moved … Continue reading
Ten Convenient Beliefs For People Who Cry During The Movie Legends Of The Fall
People who cry every time they watch Legends of the Fall believe their emotional response to the film, whose sweep across the Montana wilderness, whose Brad Pitt performance as the untameable Tristan Ludlow, whose James Horner score whose Celtic and … Continue reading
I’m like the guy who reads Playboy for the articles
Even though I do not share the worldview of the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Apple News Plus, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times, I subscribe for the articles. I don’t pay for the comfort of … Continue reading
I don’t care deeply about any 2025 movie. Am I missing something?
Gemini says: Movie fatigue is a common result of a landscape dominated by sequels and brand expansions. 2025 has seen plenty of those, with movies like Zootopia 2 and Avatar: Fire and Ash breaking box office records. If those feel … Continue reading
The Summer Of ’42
Could a film like Summer of ’42 be made today? No. The movie depicts a fifteen year old boy who has a sexual encounter with a woman in her twenties whose husband just died in the war. While the movie … Continue reading
A Perfect World (1993)
ChatGPT says: Because A Perfect World does something surprisingly rare. It uses a familiar road-movie setup — an escaped convict and a hostage — not to thrill but to explore what real connection feels like. It is a film about … Continue reading
Why do I love the movie Legends of the Fall (1994)?
ChatGPT says: Because Legends of the Fall treats emotion as fate rather than choice. The movie assumes that some people feel too deeply to live safely. Tristan is not reckless because he is immature. He is reckless because he cannot … Continue reading