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 […]
Originally published on Facebook (in slightly different form) 9 May 2015. You know, there’s a great – devastating, but great – story from the early days of the AIDS epidemic, culminating when the nurse-narrator hugs a patient in the last stages of the disease. He bursts into tears. “Oh, thank you, thank you,” he weeps. […]
Forget Captain America. I wanna see more movies about the adventures of that President. Really Awful Somewhat better First Commentary by Adam-Troy Castro Captain America (1990). Directed by Albert Pyun. Written by Stephen Tolkin and Lawrence Block (yes, the famous mystery writer, Lawrence Block). From the character by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. Starring Matt […]