Articles by Scott Essman
“What was a challenge for me was to keep a restrained tone, knowing that at any moment, there is a bomb that could go off,” he explained. “My character can’t go back to jail, but if you don’t have your manhood, what do you have?” — Esai Morales
Concerning a parallel world that first comes into human perception at the exact moment that a young woman causes a horrible tragedy for a family, Another Earth, co-written by Mike Cahill (director) and Brit Marling (star) was a recent smash at the Sundance Film Festival and is now set for a release by Fox Searchlight on July 22.
Soundgarden always got everything right – except their name. The band who first played grunge, even before that musical microcosm had a name or locale, Soundgarden unleashed their muddy blend of heavy metal and slowly-paced sludge rock in the late-1980s, at a time where most metal either resorted to the pop inflections of Poison and their brethren or the stripped-down brute intensity of Guns ‘N’ Roses.
Ben Affleck? The same Ben Affleck who has been the weak link in nearly every cast he’s ever been in? The same Ben Affleck who supposedly wrote an Oscar-winning original script – Good …
What went nearly brilliantly for director Rob Marshall in his adaptation of the Broadway musical CHICAGO seven years ago somehow misses the mark, albeit with many familiar elements, in this season’s NINE. As with CHICAGO, …
On a typical fall midweek day, the life of a television casting director can be hectic, and that might be a gross understatement. Consider the schedule of one such person in a single daytime …
James Cameron’s long-awaited epic fantasy Avatar might not be Titanic, his last film, released twelve years ago, but it is definitely titanic in size and scope. “It’s got a big story – that’s where it …
Some movies provoke the mind and intellect as much or more so than the eyes and ears, and keep audiences thinking long after they have left the theater or turned off the TV or DVD …
In a nondescript warehouse section of Van Nuys, far north of the chaos of Ventura Boulevard ……
