John Boyega impressed young audiences with his breakout role in the subversive sci-fi comedy, Attack the Block, which not many people saw. But it’s his role as rogue Stormtrooper Finn in Star Wars: The Force Awakens that is poised to launch him to stardom. While viewers grew up with the adventures of Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), […]
Hateful Eight, The (2015): Tarantino on the Issue of Trust–On Screen and Off
December 14, 2015 by
I was going to do three drafts and eventually figure some things out by that third draft. That’s why it was so weird to have the first draft leaked out there, because it was an unfinished cake and it had no ending–it was just an ending. But it actually required me–since I am writing a mystery–to be detective about the whole thing.
Joy: Interview with Jennifer Lawrence, Joyful and Joyous Star (and Muse) of David O. Russell
December 9, 2015 by
It’s the strangest, most powerful bond, but I feel that David O. Russell knows how to tap into a part of my heart and I’m so grateful to him that he wants me to be a part of his work and legacy–Jennifer Lawrence
Joy (2015): David O. Russell’s Biopic–Another Meditation on the American Dream of Success and Failure
December 9, 2015 by
The movie tries to asnwer such relevant–and perhaps uniquely American–questions as: What keeps a person trying and trying then faltering and then knocking their head against the wall until the point of success?
Star Wars: The Force Awakens–Director JJ Abrams on his Phenom Film
December 7, 2015 by
One of the amazing things about what George Lucas created was a sense of possibility and unlimited opportunity–JJ Abrams
