Author: Danny Bowes

Summertime, and The Canon Is Fluid Discovering Great Movies is Often About Timing. It becomes a rarer joy the longer one devotes one’s life to watching movies,…

Exploring the incomparable and still vital career of Clint Eastwood.Art by E-Mann on DeviantArtClint Eastwood is 86 today, and to commemorate the occasion of his…

Exploring the divide between festival audiences and festival critics and festival judges: a dangerous threeway. With Cannes now concluded for another year, a variation on…

A critic’s notes on the Cannes Film Festival, hype, and film advocacy. Every May, one of the greatest rituals in world cinephilia unfolds: the paradisal…

What Hollywood really needs is to embrace the fact that some of its male heroes just want to bone.Image CreditI’m going to begin with an admission…

“I understand that reference.” There’s a moment in 2012’s The Avengers that resonated with me beyond its proportional role in the overall film, consisting of…

Game of Thrones is back, winter is coming, and Joyeux Noel. It isn’t always easy being a fan of the show—season 5, in particular, featured some awful adaptation choices—but its gravitational pull is undeniable.

Asking why so serious has gone to a whole other level.

This week, rather than practice film criticism or commentary, I want to discuss the process by which these things are made.