Author: Scott Beggs

Call it the Wright-Jenkins Problem. It’s the state of tension between Marvel and a director with a strong vision. Obviously it’s not something unique to…

Hollywood is rarely better at pigeon-holing than when it pigeon-holed action stars. Big muscled heroes get to run, shout and wield flamethrowers, but they rarely…

Within the past two weeks, I’ve seen two large-scale, effects-driven adventure movies, and neither looked anything like the other. The first was Avengers: Age of…

https://medium.com/media/cdfe7de06566eead3ed6633da9433a68/href Seth Boyden’s animated short film An Object at Rest is a delightful study in watching a piece of nature driven crazy by mankind. It…

At the end of Empire Records, the wonderful weirdos and freaks and burnouts all answer the call for an epic party in order to raise…

When I was a sophomore in college, I found myself in a beer-blurry debate about whether or not Hamlet could be black. Here was a…

In 1969, James Bond appeared on screen in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, but he didn’t look anything like Sean Connery. Because he looked like…

Will Poulter is going to play Pennwise the Dancing Clown in Cary Fukunaga’s two-part It. Considering the iconic nature of the role, and the previous…

In 2013, “Ryan Gosling Won’t Eat His Cereal” becoming a legitimately popular meme after Ryan McHenry started vining himself spooning breakfast bites to a television…