You've Come a Long Way, Hercules
The latest Hercules movie starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson features brawn on par with 300 and other similar action movies that highlight power and the male body. The Greco-Roman demi-God also has...
View Article"CinemAbility" Explores current Civil Rights Movement and Marks 6th...
I spent most of 2013 celebrating my father Stanley Kramer's Centennial with screenings, retrospectives and film festivals honoring his Legacy across the country. One of the highlights in recognizing my...
View ArticleSupermensch Shep Gordon, 'I Make People Famous. It's What I Do.'
Shep Gordon, looking like a Maui high school graduate festooned with lei, received the "Maverick Award" on the opening night of the Maui Film Festival (MFF) in Wailea on Wednesday, June 4. The Maverick...
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Don Cheadle is Miles Ahead
He may be an Oscar nominee but actor, Don Cheadle hasn't lost touch with what he's passionate about or the people who helped him get there. Son of an educator and a psychologist, Cheadle has always...
View ArticleOff the Streets and Out of Trouble
My childhood was something of a stew of revelatory modern suburban age and the edgy coalition of '60s New Jersey culture. My parents were both from the East Coast; my dad from Jersey, and my mom a...
View ArticleIs There a Clear Path to Making it in the Music Industry?
By now, many music fans have heard that YouTube is planning on launching a paid music streaming service. However, the press is not mostly positive. There is still an ongoing fight between the viral...
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What to Expect if You're Expecting a Human Centipede 3
Pythagoras called the number 3 the "noblest" of all digits, the only number to equal the sum of its preceding terms. There is a culminating symmetry in the simple sequence--1, 2, 3--a narrative and...
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5 First Impressions of the Canceled Comedies We Forgot To Watch
Last week we raided our archives to find shows that had critical success but sadly left the airwaves a little too soon (or at least before we got around to watching them). We had so much fun making...
View ArticleTo Fart or Not to Fart: The Obvious Question of Obvious Child
I once attended a forum with a successful Hollywood screenwriter who told about how young writers were always approaching him with the same complaint. "I just saw the crappiest movie. How did it get...
View ArticleThe Death of the Daytime Emmys
How far the mighty have fallen. The 41st Annual Daytime Emmy Awards this weekend were regulated to nothing more than a live stream on the Internet. From its glory days of live major network broadcasts...
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"Geek Love" Author Champions Film
American's have long been fascinated by the lives of "freaks." June 27th the award-winning documentary Bound by Flesh opens. Geek Love author Katherine Dunn wrote: "This brilliant, revelatory...
View ArticleIda; or, the Stoic
In Joseph Campbell's masterful text, The Hero of a Thousand Faces, he traces the quest of the hero through three major stages: separation, initiation and return. The separation stage is a separation...
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L.A Parties, Paparazzi and Poop.
It's been about a month since I moved to L.A. As a filmmaker, I finally caved and weathered the migration, leaving behind my family, friends, and everything that's remotely familiar, for a chance at...
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Pulse Report: Movie and TV Trends That Will Define the Next 12 Months
This is a post from our partners at AskMen. Make sure to check out their entire Pulse Report, a compilation of 500 people, products and trends within 10 verticals (including fashion, food, travel,...
View ArticleThe Story of Viv Albertine + Joanna Hogg Triptych Screening at Lincoln Center...
Herewith, the story of Viv Albertine, star of Hogg's Exhibition, and also of her own life -- begun as a "poor North London girl" and lived through London Punk, a directing career, motherhood, illness,...
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Live Social Media TV Offers Behavioral Data
ABC premiered #RisingStar Sunday night and generated more than 1 million app downloads, and there is more to this innovation than television finally moving beyond the simple hashtag for live programs....
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'The Bachelorette' Season 10, Episode 6: Andi Dorfman Plays Juliet With Pigeons
Welcome back to the wonderful world of white wine tears, roses, grammatical incorrectness and two-month journeys toward engagement. That's right, "The Bachelorette," has returned -- this time with Andi...
View ArticleTrapped in the Booth: Part 2
Disclaimer: This is a semi-fictionalized version of my all-too-real experiences working as a DJ in New York City. Most of the names of venues, organizations or people mentioned herein have been changed...
View ArticleThe Return of Airplane!
The other day, I was back in Chicago watching the Cubs game, and an ad came on during the pre-game show. It was very funny and wonderfully done -- far better than most movie parodies, which can be...
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Blacker and Better: Jessica Lea Mayfield
"This is a cruel joke" she says staring at the tour van bench seat in the green room. "She" is Jessica Lea Mayfield, lead and namesake of the trio that just performed; frailly thin, soft-spoken, black...
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