Author Archives: Bob Hill

“I’m not telling you to make the world better, because I don’t think that progress is necessarily part of the package. I’m just telling you to live in it. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not … Read More

Have you ever stood in front of a towering piece of art and thought, “How on earth did he do that?” Of course you have. I mean, you’re not an animal, right? The creative process, as it pertains to any … Read More

OK, so, first thing’s first: I am admittedly waaaaay behind on this one, what with End of Watch actually being released in late September of 2012. For whatever reason, I didn’t get around to watching David Ayer’s L.A. cop drama until Netflix … Read More … Read More

“I understand, alright, the hopeless dream of being – not seeming, but being – at every waking moment, alert. The gulf between what you are with others and what you are alone; the vertigo and the constant hunger to be … Read More

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“I’m one of the last of the optimists about the future of the motion picture industry and Hollywood. But I really believe that all of my colleagues who love film and know nothing else, if the end of the world … Read More

The problem with Superman – at least so far as I can tell – is that the moviegoing public has simply outgrown his iconography. This happens to be one of the few self-referential points that 2006’s Superman Returns actually nailed right … Read More … Read More

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has certainly committed to this whole Civil War Era thing. In addition to “Photography And The Civil War” and a series of related 19th Century lithographs lining the main hallway of the American Wing, the … Read More

“Two things are still the great currency, even in this golden age of television: sex and violence. If you have hot people hooking up, then you’ve got one; then you’re spending one currency. And if you’re blowing shit up and … Read More

It takes a lapse in judgment to make someone a convict, but it takes a crooked system to make someone a criminal. It’s a literary concept that dates all the way back to Dickens and Poe, if not Shakespeare and … Read More … Read More