Author Archives: Bob Hill

It never works. It never ever ever ever ever works. The End (Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing opens in limited release this Friday, June 7th.) … Read More

“Disneyland is something that will never be finished. Something that I can keep developing, keep plussing and adding to. It’s alive. It will be a live, breathing thing that will need to change. A picture is a thing. Once you … Read More

FREE PUSSY RIOT! Go ahead, say it. As a matter of fact, scream it. Just let that shit roll off your tongue. Do it because it’s fun and funny; because it’s vulgar and edgy, because it’s off-putting and it’s awesome. … Read More … Read More

“Ideas are very frustrating because they don’t exist, y’know. It’s like in comic books, when you see the thought bubbles around people, it’s in smoke that evaporates. Ideas evaporate. So the [area] where I feel very blessed is that I’ve … Read More

Gluttony is a sin, and a deadly one, at that. It’s never been on more embarrassing display than in the upper echelon of 21st Century America. While this collection of oil on canvas paintings is billed as a semi-autobiographical homage … Read More

I am reminded of the late great film Director John Hughes, who was once quoted as saying, “The first objective is to make a good movie. The second objective is to have a hit. If you get it backward, you … Read More … Read More

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Focus groups killed the classic Western … focus groups and the notion that every significant plot point needed to be charted, categorized, cataloged and certified before a project could move forward. And what a tragedy that is, really. I mean, … Read More … Read More

“The young are impatient about change because they cannot grasp the power of time itself; not only as the enemy of flesh, the very germ of death, but as a benign cancer. As the young cannot grasp really that love … Read More

Here’s some summer reading.