The Drop
In adapting his own short story (“Animal Rescue”), screenwriter and novelist Dennis Lehane (Gone Baby Gone and Shutter Island) shifts …
Category Archives: Briefs
Let’s Be Cops
Jake Johnson and Damon Wayans Jr. have established an easy and engaging enough rapport on the hit television series New Girl, …
Magic in the Moonlight
In the poem “Marmion,” Sir Walter Scott opined, “Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to …
Boyhood
On paper, and in far lesser hands, the premise of Boyhood would come across as a gimmick that would never …
Guardians of the Galaxy
Marvel Studios has excelled thus far by creating characters that neatly fit into segmented niches that are easily identifiable for …
Jersey Boys
Clint Eastwood has a no-nonsense approach that has served him well over the course of his career. He refuses to …
Think Like a Man Too
Tim Story (the first two Fantastic Four movies, Barbershop) gathers the gang from the adaptation of Steve Harvey’s bestselling relationship …
The Fault in Our Stars
Young Adult fiction author (and Indianapolis native) John Green gets adapted here by screenwriters Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber …
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