Making a spoof movie is hard, fiendishly so. Don’t believe me? Think you can just throw together a bunch of jokes about pop culture and guys getting hit in the nuts, and your movie will recoup a tidy profit? Not so much, and I’ve come with proof. Exhibits A and B are Jason Friedberg and […]

Things change. Sometimes it’s slow, other times it’s terrifyingly fast. Movies are no different. As a member of Generation X, the forgotten generation, my experience growing up was that seeing movies theatrically was a central part of the cultural conversation. At school, we’d chatter excitedly about Ghostbusters. The standard-issue date involved dinner and a movie. […]

I’m not sure I can fully explain to you how I feel about violence in movies, but I’ll try, beginning with an anecdote. Years ago, a very good film called Mad Max: Fury Road was released. Like all right-thinking people, I loved it. Brilliantly shot and edited, intelligently written, skillfully acted, all in service of […]