Author Archives: Bob Hill

The Baytown Outlaws is an ultra-violent thrill ride that also happens to be a good bit of fun, assuming you’re into that type of thing. This movie has no interest in tugging at your heartstrings or making you go all … Read More … Read More

Get the flash player here: http://www.adobe.com/flashplayer All pics taken with a metallic-blue Canon PowerShot A495 digital camera, the bottom left-hand side of which is held together with a big ole’ piece of duct tape. (Good Pictures/Bad Camera is a regular … Read More … Read More

“When you started writing, in high school or college, it wasn’t out of a wish to be published, or to be successful, or even to win a lovely award like the one you’re receiving tonight. It was in response to … Read More

Why I Quit Drinking & Delco Moving On: One Year in the Making Good Pictures/Bad Camera: Greetings From Asbury Park, New Jersey 5 Facts & 10 Opinions Regarding Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln Good Pictures/Bad Camera: Bar Harbor is Just Bangor (With … Read More

10. The Dark Knight Rises Sure, The Dark Knight Rises was brimming with plot holes. But the movie also worked on several levels, chief among them the ability to provide a fairly tight ending to what is – for now … Read More … Read More

It’s been quite a time, wandering about town with my Canon PowerShot in tow, lo, these past 12 months. While the only camera I own may have jammed up like a cheap gun and run through AA batteries like thin … Read More … Read More

(Good Pictures/Bad Camera is a regular feature on IFB.) 

By Bob Hill Today is Saturday, December 3rd, 1993. I am sitting alongside Meghan’s family in the Wildwood Catholic High School Auditorium. Meghan is sitting with her classmates in the front row. “A reading from the Book of Ephesians,” a … Read More

The ability to tell a more effective story by maintaining a tight focus Resisting the urge to exploit stock footage from September 11, 2001 Forcing the audience to consider more than one side of every argument A 2 hr., 36 … Read More … Read More

“Songs carry emotional information and some transport us back to a poignant time, place, or event in our lives. It’s no wonder a corporation would want to hitch a ride on the spell these songs cast and encourage you to … Read More