Author: Danny Bowes

An appreciation of the under-appreciated actor on his birthday. The Canadian actor Hart Bochner is 60 years old today. Steadily employed since the late 70s…

James Franco is going to try really hard. Movies about the porn industry, made within and adjunct to the non-pornographic film industry, always have to be…

First-Class Passengers Why Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence Are On a Mission With Serious Consequences. As someone who frequently, and with baroque profanity, decries the…

118 years to the day since its patent, we celebrate the original physical medium of film. On the 13th of September, 1898, Hannibal Williston Goodwin received…

Sometimes you have to pick a movie at random and let it sweep you up. In breaking with what’s become a weekly tradition of writing about…

Another famous figure has declared cinema’s extinction. Following the conclusion of HBO’s The Night Of, mediocre novelist and recrudescent social media gadfly Bret Easton Ellis…

A Three-Point Plan. Some people like the summer, and I’m not here to heatshame them. People like all kinds of strange things. (Many, if you’ll…

Pondering The Remake Exploring the purpose, execution, and possibilities of remakes. If you’re anything like me (God help you), you’ve forgotten that there’s a $100 million remake…

Celebrating movies with Kent Jones’ Hitchcock/Truffaut.Cohen Media GroupKent Jones’ Hitchcock/Truffaut is a really lovely piece of work, a little over 70 minutes of pure celebration of…