Author Archives: Bob Hill

Zelig may not be Woody Allen’s most entertaining movie, but it is certainly his most brilliant (if not his most involved). Compared with traditional Woody Allen vehicles, projects rife with A-list appearances and recognizable locations, Zelig remains a bit of … Read More … Read More

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“Style, when it works, takes the reader to a deeper place than can be arrived at thematically. It takes you to an inner understanding of the writer’s mind that isn’t about words.  In art, style is not superficial. Or rather it … Read More

We set out from a two-man launch, just a pair of sunburnt teens, buzz-cutting and running and spraying and splashing across a series of slow-rippling wakes. The wind was whipping past in stringent fits now, playing hell on loose hair … Read More

“One must be pitiless about this matter of ‘mood’. In a sense, the writing will create the mood. If art is, as I believe it to be, a genuinely transcendental function – a means by which we rise out of … Read More

Critics are raving over Cate Blanchett’s performance in the new Woody Allen film, and they are absolutely justified in doing so. Cate Blanchett is Cate Blanchett, after all, and Cate Blanchett is wonderful. And yet, Blanchett may not be the … Read More … Read More

“Every culture has its southerners – people who work as little as they can, preferring to dance, drink, sing, brawl, kill their unfaithful spouses; who have livelier gestures, more lustrous eyes, more colorful garments, more fancifully decorated vehicles, a wonderful … Read More

Look at that logo. I mean, look at it. It looks like absolute child’s play, does it not? What with the jagged, awkward angles over smooth, well-rounded curves. It looks like it was constructed by some intern over at Warner … Read More … Read More

“What happens is, like with John Sculley, John came from Pepsi Co. And they at most would change their product once every 10 years. To them a new product was, like, a new-sized bottle. So if you were a product … Read More

Blackfish is one of the best documentaries of the year, a significantly touching piece of rhetoric that evokes equal fits of pain, anger, sadness and empathy. A great deal of the commentary included in the film – almost all of … Read More