Elf: Buddy’s Musical Christmas

Elf: Buddy’s Musical Christmas

As aProduction Assistant on Elf: BUddy’s Musical Christmas, I learned how a stop motion animated film was produced. It opened my eyes to see the substantual amount of work that went into something like...

Can’t Beat the Real Thing

Thoughts on the ending of Mad Men I finally finished Man Men last night. It’s been a long time putting it off, but quarantines will do this to you. This post is going to be written in a fast and loose style, and will not be about theories about the ending....

The Fortune Teller

Fade in on a small hole-in-the-wall shop. “Fortune Teller, Futures Fortold” reads the sandwich board sign propped up outside the door. A young man walks in, eager but apprehensive. The fortune teller’s dialogue is in italics while the young...

On the Scene

It’s been awhile. I don’t mean to pretend like I ever took blogging here seriously. I figured it was a way to supplement the artwork I had on this site, a place where I could write about films if I ever had ideas worth writing about. And this blog would probably die...

FilmStruck, Cultural Context, and The Absolution of the Plutocracy

On the 26th of October, the classic / indie / arthouse film screening service (and online home to the Criterion Collection) FilmStruck, to which I have been a subscriber since its creation, stopped taking new subscribers. An article in Variety posted that same day...