Author Archives: Bob Hill

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

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