Author Archives: Bob Hill

“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

Esteemed Writer/Director Nicolas Winding Refn would like you to know something: The strong-silent type – arguably the most identifiable of all American archetypes – was originally the expressed province of the East. Assuming Refn is to be believed, that archetype … Read More … Read More

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At some point a few years back, independent studios experienced a major run on holocaust documentaries. The angles were almost always left-of-center – stock footage from the Warsaw Ghetto, previously undisclosed testimony from the Nuremberg trials, the plight of Polish … Read More … Read More

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“People who work at counters and make you wait while they answer the telephone, privileging the customer on the phone over the one right in front of their face, the one who made the trip, got out of bed, appeared … Read More

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“‘The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one.’ … The man who first said that was probably a coward. He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps 2,000 deaths if … Read More

“Sorry, I seem to have stepped out for a bit. Feel free to make yourself at home; have a look about the place. I’ll be back in a jiffy. Toodaloo.”