Review: (500) Days of Summer

Tired of the same old love story? That clichéd boy meets girl, they hate each other then learn to love each other, garbage that, while sometimes can be saved by smart filmmakers (Nora Ephron is one of the genre’s saving graces), is just too often filled with “we’ve seen it a million times” junk? Filmmakers [...]

Summer Catch-up

Sorry I haven’t been writing a lot this summer, I’ve been preoccupied. Its weird coming out of college and finding that I don’t have the time I thought I’d have because of all the other work I’d be doing. But I need to write about film, it’s my aphrodisiac. It helps me. So I’m getting [...]

R.I.P. John Hughes

John Hughes has always been a huge influence on me. His work in film from the genius of “Sixteen Candles” and “Uncle Buck” to the perfection of “Ferris Bueller” and “Planes, Trains, and Automobiles”, inspired an entire generation of filmmakers and filmgoers. I had always wished he would come back, but [...]