Author Archives: Bob Hill

By Bob Hill I was still living on Magnolia Avenue come November, having moved from the rear apartment I had previously shared with Bobbi Jean to a ground-level unit that wrapped around the side of the building. I’d been out … Read More

“Democracy is not a spectator sport. It is a difficult, hard, challenging, full-contact, competitive, participatory endeavor. And this … this is critical – people who get comfortable of body get fat; people who get comfortable of mind and intellect get … Read More

Killing Them Softly drives its point home like a jackhammer to the cranium. And yet, it somehow manages to drag in all the places it should soar, lulling the audience into a collective malaise – one that’s interrupted only briefly … Read More … Read More

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There is a tendency among documentary filmmakers these days – perhaps the cumulative effect of Michael Moore and Morgan Spurlock – to insert themselves into their work, forcing personal narrative onto a subject that has little or nothing to do … Read More … Read More

“To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard. You have to keep them alive in order to tap them. It’s been important to me my whole life not to let go of any of … Read More

Alfred Hitchcock was a brilliant, unpredictable man, cold-brimming with signature style and nuance, much like any number of his films. Hitchcock was also a perfectionist, obsessed with endless layers of tedium. It is this latter element of the Hitchcock persona … Read More … Read More

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On its website, The Innocence Project is described as “a national litigation and public policy organization dedicated to exonerating wrongfully convicted individuals through DNA testing and reforming the criminal justice system to prevent further injustice.” In other words, the non-profit … Read More … Read More