I conducted this interview with novelist and screenwriter Tara Ison almost a decade ago for a now defunct site after the publication of her 2015 book Reeling… Read more “Reeling Through Life: An Interview with Tara Ison”
Category: Film Books
A Review of Laura Horak’s Girls Will Be Boys
Laura Horak’s new book Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema (Rutgers University Press, 2016) is an exhaustively researched and insightful look at gender norms and… Read more “A Review of Laura Horak’s Girls Will Be Boys”
A Review of You’re Never Weird on the Internet (Almost) by Felicia Day
I first became aware of Felicia Day (as did almost everyone else) shortly after she released The Guild on the internet in 2007 and became a geek celebrity. The… Read more “A Review of You’re Never Weird on the Internet (Almost) by Felicia Day”
A Review of Gay Directors, Gay Films? by Emanuel Levy
Film critic Emanuel Levy‘s new book Gay Directors , Gay Films? is an excellent examination of the work of five gay filmmakers–Pedro Almodóvar, Terence Davies, Todd Haynes, Gus Van… Read more “A Review of Gay Directors, Gay Films? by Emanuel Levy”
A Review of Keepers by Richard Schickel
Richard Schickel’s Keepers: The Greatest Films–and Personal Favorites–of a Moviegoing Lifetime (Alfred A. Knopf, 2015) is a book a cinephile earns the right to write with a lifetime… Read more “A Review of Keepers by Richard Schickel”
A Review of The Horror of It All by Adam Rockoff
Adam Rockoff comes off as something of a cad in his newest book The Horror of It all: One Moviegoer’s Love Affair with Masked Maniacs, Frightened Virgins,… Read more “A Review of The Horror of It All by Adam Rockoff”
Don’t You Forget: A Review of Kirk Honeycutt’s John Hughes: A Life in Film
No other filmmaker has ever better understood and better captured the experience of being a teenager in America than John Hughes. The teen films he made in the… Read more “Don’t You Forget: A Review of Kirk Honeycutt’s John Hughes: A Life in Film”
A Review Marilyn Monroe Day by Day: A Timeline of People, Places, and Events by Carl Rollyson
Over half a century after her untimely death at age thirty-six Marilyn Monroe still captivates screen audiences and intrigues the curious. Who – and what – was… Read more “A Review Marilyn Monroe Day by Day: A Timeline of People, Places, and Events by Carl Rollyson”
Roger Ebert, Teacher
I own a lot of books, and I own a lot of movies. It would be hard to say which passion has owned more of me, but… Read more “Roger Ebert, Teacher”
God’s Lonely Man: A Look at Tom Shone’s Martin Scorcese: A Retrospective
Few modern directors enjoy more reverential respect than Martin Scorcese. Across a five decade career he has managed to create films that span the worlds of the arthouse… Read more “God’s Lonely Man: A Look at Tom Shone’s Martin Scorcese: A Retrospective”
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