This might have been a terrific movie one-sheet had it not been for this little detail shot of a typically clichéd Hollywood ugly-adorable dog, dressed up in a moronic football uniform, added to the poster for…what, exactly? (click to see the whole one-sheet) It’s not a bad poster at all; it’s got a nice sense [...]

I find this to be a tough time of year for movie watching.
On one hand, it’s an embarrassment of riches because the Oscar nominations usually mean that I’ve got a lot of catching up to do. I don’t see as many movies as I did long ago in my pathetically lonely bachelor days, but each [...]

It’s not that Hollywood invented bad ideas, but they are extraordinarily adept at perfecting them. In fact, movie studios employ entire teams of people – called “development executives” – to do little else but take good ideas and perform an excessive amount of work on them until they become bad ideas. It happens all the [...]