Creator/Showrunners who are directing the dominant amount of a television series are introducing a more thoroughly auteuristic and expansive mode of cinema than has previously existed, especially due to the sheer material differences in length and size between a film and a television show. Click here to continue reading...
Nicolas Winding Refn, self-styled as NWR, doesn’t care what you thought of The Neon Demon— as long as you felt penetrated. Per NWR: “Polarizing is the definition of success because it means you’ve penetrated” — which is basically a fascinating, microcosmic nugget potentially bearing the determinative principle of NWR’s cinema: boredom is death. Click here to continue reading...
What do you do when your cousin’s been kidnapped and you’ve been charged with retrieving him from the bastards that done it?
If you’re Michael Gray, Chief Accountant of the Peaky Blinders (sorry, “The Shelby Company”), and you’ve just pulled up outside the appropriate location, you lift your pistol in the air and calmly tell the guards to stay in the car. You’ll do the killing. Click here to continue reading...