Author: Jacob Oller

The animation groundbreakers are still plugging away. When Pixar Animation Studios made Toy Story they were innovators of form. Then they became innovators of story.…

The political satire of the Hal Ashby classic is now depressingly desirable. Director Hal Ashby and the Coen Brothers share much of their comedy DNA.…

Scorsese’s boxing epic owes it all to the edit.

There were whole movies that disappeared from trailer to release. After a personal tragedy, director Zack Snyder stepped down from helming Justice League and handed…

We can’t blur out Superman’s mustache, but we can do a lot of other things. It’s 2017 and computer graphics have gotten so close to…

Fritz Lang’s first talkie concerned how we deal with evil. In 1931, evil and how to solve it in practical terms was the realm of…

Selfishness in direction, but in the best possible way. Director Paul Thomas Anderson is one of the most predominant examples of a modern auteur working…

A legendary counter gets its legacy preserved. The rhythm of any restaurant is in the sounds as much as the images. Capturing that, especially in…

New York City grinders take their escape where they can find it. Interviewing multiple urbanites about their dedication to surfing in the freezing Atlantic after…