Being nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director at the age of 24 can either ignite a career or cause tremendous pressure. Luckily, John Singleton was of the former variety. Stopping by LMU to talk about his career, Hollywood and his upcoming projects, Singleton provided ample topics for discussion and conversation. Early Influences and
Originally posted at ScottFeinberg.com Submitted for Oscar’s Foreign Language category, the Icelandic film Of Horses and Men missed the shortlist for this year’s Oscars. That miss however doesn’t speak to the quality of this film. Told as a series of interconnecting stories involving a small town and their relationship with horses, a stunning film that
By all accounts Divergent should have been a good movie. It has interesting actors, and Oscar winner playing the villain and a decent director. Unfortunately, this movie doesn’t manage to translate its wonderful source material to the screen with any kind of aplomb. Divergent, for folks not in the know, tells the story of the
Have you all been visiting Awards Circuit recently? If you didn’t know that I was back writing for them…well now you do. There’s a lot of awesome stuff going on over there like ACCA 1998, where the readers are voting on their favorites from 1998. I felt like I should do the same here at
The Grand Budapest Hotel, the new film by Wes Anderson is certainly one of the most unique films that moviegoers will have the chance to experience in 2014. The director, whose previous credits include delightful films like The Fantastic Mr. Fox and Moonrise Kingdom, takes another step on his journey as a filmmaker to bring
There are bad movies that are tons of fun to take apart in reviews. In fact, I’ve written quite a few of those here at the blog. But every so often you get a film like Need For Speed, a movie so dull and laborious that you have to summon up the strength of a