All in Essay
My current obsession is a man that has been technically famous since the nineties, and has been known and successful for some fifteen years as a stand-up and radio host. Of course I didn’t come to know about Marc Maron through his radio hosting gigs years ago, or even his podcast WTF with Marc Maron.
When I have an entire day to myself, sometimes I binge films, because during the rest of the week I can’t seem to find the time. In these situations I sometimes try to beat my existing record, which at this moment stands at seven films in a row.
The Israeli born cousins were opposed in taste much of the time, but both wanted the same thing: a chance to be powerful, famous, and beloved. Their decisions regarding Cannon studios often were best for them rather than what was best for the company.
With the recent swarm of adult animated, stop-motion, and illustrated adult cartoon films, it feels like there are more animated films made for adults than children. Recent films in this genre include “Hell and Back,” about a young boy being saved from the throes of Hell by his friends, and the unreal parody “Sausage Party,” which released its trailer recently.
To many people the golden age of television has come and gone multiple times. For NBC the golden age was the nineties, and the must-see event was their Thursday night block. Starting back in the eighties NBC prepared a comedy lineup every Thursday to draw in a youth market. Shows included “Cheers,” “Fame,” and “Taxi.”
Rambo is an enigmatic and interesting character whose origins are as much a part of his mythology as the bloodbath that he instigates in most of the Rambo films. Of course, what happens when the original actually has nothing to do with the rest of the films?
One of the best bits of news from the empowering ceremony was that each honoree had a short film about them at the ceremony, and every single one of them had been directed by a woman.
I plowed through all five installments and then tried to go to sleep, which proved to be very difficult, which I realized was the intent of the special. I hadn’t heard of many of these films which fueled my penchant for being a know it all.
From the original inception of this franchise there has so-far been five films, the most recent of which, “Mission: Impossible: Rogue Nation,” has only just appeared in theatres. Since the release of the fourth film many have heralded it as the beginning of an era of change in the franchise, and that these films are good again.
During my childhood The Muppets were still everywhere. The TV show “Muppet Babies” ran from 1984-1991, and reruns played on Nickelodeon every day. Three Muppet movies were made in the nineties, the last of which, “Muppets from Space,” was a box office bust and led to a long drought for the franchise.
Black-ish” has gotten most of the attention from critics and audiences alike because it has had a full season, and is headed by the well-known actor Anthony Anderson. The praise has been great enough that Anderson has even been nominated for an Emmy for his performance,
Hulu has decided to dole these episodes out one at a time, instead of in complete binge watching glory, like its competitor Netflix. Of the four episodes that have already aired, there have been some choice moments. Julie’s mother, played by the amazing Andrea Martin, steals the show on more than one occasion.
Wain's great triumph, and his first directorial film, was “Wet Hot American Summer,” a parody of summer camp movies like “Meatballs,” and “Indian Summer.” What Wain understood was that to have a true homage you have to respect and understand the source material.
It’s a known fact that film festivals aren’t as inclusive to women as they are to men. Cannes especially has faced criticism in the past for not including more female film directors, whose stories are often mitigated to only the indie sphere, where they are completely dependent on festival buzz
The Bechdel Test is anything but a bad thing for films. Realizing that a film does not pass this test is important in understanding filmmaking in 2015. Sadly, the test has not been reworked in the past thirty years, and therein lays an important and complex problem.
