Stepping back in time with The Green Book
The Green Book is more recently known as a 2019 movie about Dr. Don Shirley, an African-American jazz pianist and composer (Mahershala Ali) and his driver/bodyguard (Viggo Mortensen) on their… Read more »
An Oscar nomination’s literary roots
The 2019 Oscar nominations were announced this week to a rapt crowd of critics and cinephiles. Among the highlights include a best actress nomination for Yalitza Aparicio who starred in… Read more »
You can add Mad Max: Fury Road to the list of things influenced by Moby Dick
I didn’t see Mad Max: Fury Road. But a lot of other people did, and it seems like most of them loved it. The movie has been nominated for nine… Read more »
Edward Jay Epstein: “The Oscars are What Hollywood Pretends It Does”
On the occasion of a new edition of Edward Jay Epstein’s The Hollywood Economist, Publishers Weekly’s Marc Schultz spoke to Epstein on the state of the industry. What major… 1 / Read more »