NO SPOILERS Everything I know right now, or everything that I will know, in the future, if my stars align…
OSCARS® 2020 :: Personal Choices and Predictions
I do this every year. It’s just that I found time this year to put up a full fledged blog…
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SPOILERS! Joseph Campbell, an American mythologist, found a recurring pattern in the mythologies of the world. He compiled all of…
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First things first, I know this is not a film analysis post, and it was never intended to be that…
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NO SPOILERS Casting is a difficult job. So much so that films have a separate casting department headed by the…
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NO SPOILERS I was watching director Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) the other day. I couldn’t help but…
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NO SPOILERS In order to have your audience root for your characters, you need to sometimes provide their backstories. Backstories…