I wonder what sounds can be heard in David Thomson’s apartment late at night? Click clack? Or tick t… Source: Mapping the Stars.

Heaven on Earth – Elysium By: Jenna De Bono The place at the ends of the earth to which certain favored heroes were conveyed by the gods after death. A place or state of perfect happiness.  It is inherit in the human condition that we often realize the importance of something or someone when it […]

What is Screen Criticism in the 21st Century? By: Jenna De Bono  Screen criticism has changed extensively over time and could be described and understood in many different ways, however screen criticism is fundamentally an individual’s opinion on a film.  Usually the author (the critic) will engage in a discussion as to qualify their opinion […]

The Illusion of Reality and the Manipulation of Truth.  By: Jenna De Bono.  Watching Mad Men as a twenty-three year old woman was an interesting and perhaps a different viewing experience than others from an older demographic.  I knew Matthew Weiner’s Mad Men, was a re-creation of American (and Western) culture during the early 1960’s.  […]

                                                                                                 I wonder what sounds can be heard in David Thomson’s apartment late at night? Click clack? Or tick tap? Does he punch out concise yet intricately personal critiques on an old German typewriter like Woody? Or touch the wide flat keys of […]

  Does anyone remember having uncontrollable fun watching the 1960s Batman (Kane 1966) series? Wild costumes, crazy make-up and injected into all those WHACK! SMACK! BLAM! fist fights was the comical, clownish and often camp celebration of whimsical one-liners and colourful characters. Batman and Robin (Schumacher 1997), the fourth installment in Warner Bros caped-crusader series […]

    As the screen evolves from black to the flickering movement of motion picture, a stagecoach is visibly circled and restrained by masked gunmen on horseback, thieves, and criminals; jackals at the throat of one of industry’s beasts.   The first images of The Grey Fox (Borsos 1982) are those of the early Hollywood […]