12 Movies That Are Actually Right About the Writing Life

Posted on February 3rd, 2018 by Adam-Troy Castro

Because writing is a spectacularly uncinematic occupation, almost all films about writers rely on tricks more congenial to celluloid: to wit, the writer has an adventure, the writer magically produces a book and is instantly famous with complications, the real-life famous writer experiences a spectacular event that prefigures his classic perfectly and establishes that he […]

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The Single Dumbest Thing Yet Written In Tribute to Alan Rickman

Posted on January 15th, 2016 by Adam-Troy Castro

Look. I am second to no one on my love for the  screen work of the late Alan Rickman. I saw Die Hard in preview, before anybody knew it would become a classic of its kind and a model for many inferior films, including its own sequels, that came after it. I knew he was a star the second […]

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Enough With the Fershlugginer Chocolate Cake, Already

Posted on October 22nd, 2015 by Adam-Troy Castro

Look, I’m going to explain this in terms you might be able to understand. I like chocolate cake just fine. I think chocolate cake is one of the things that makes life worth living. As a fat guy, I not only return to chocolate cake more often than is healthy for me, but can actually […]

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