Author Archives: Bob Hill

Skyfall is the best James Bond film of the modern era, and it may very well be the best Bond film of all-time. None of which should come as a huge surprise given we’re talking about a movie directed by … Read More

In the beginning, it was a simple idea: Put aside all of my freelance gigs for a period of one year and channel that energy into a series of side projects that might not otherwise find a home … projects … Read More

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“For the last 30 years I’ve been writing in my music about the distance between the American dream and American reality. I’ve seen it from inside and outside: as a blue collar kid from a working class home in New … Read More … Read More

“The story is in the ice, somehow.” So says global photographer-cum-activist James Balog, who has spent the past five-plus years of his career documenting – and subsequently lecturing about – the clear and present danger presented by global warming on … Read More

“Nothing came easy for him. Nothing deterred him – not the many editors and publishers who rejected his books and stories; not the Anthropology Department at the University of Chicago, which rejected not one but two of the theses he … Read More

A basement in Long Island (that I incorrectly assumed was a basement in Virginia) A beach A boardwalk stockroom A boiler room A car trunk A cowfield A full bathtub A jail cell A lawnshed A public bathroom stall A … Read More

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“In many films there is a great confusion – especially in my particular genre of work – there’s a great confusion between the words ‘mystery’ and ‘suspense’. And the two things are absolutely miles apart. Mystery is an intellectual process, … Read More

By Bob Hill It was just past four in the afternoon when Eli decided to wander back and move a load of wash into the dryer. The communal laundry room had been strategicallly placed behind Eli’s parents’ house so that … Read More