IFB’s Top 10 Movies of January, 2014 to January, 2015

Please Note: None of these movies was originally released during January of 2014 or January of 2015. 10. Selma Despite several highly questionable casting, screenplay, and directorial choices, do not avert your eyes. This country’s history of ignorance – in … Read More

Why I’d Take Courtney Love Over Kurt Cobain Any Day of The Week

Kurt Cobain was a victim, the world’s only martyr, or so he might have you believe. I am speaking here of the man, and not his music. I am speaking of an addict who masqueraded behind his pain, who put … Read More

IFB’s Top 10 Posts of 2014

8 Actors Who Are Likely to Appear In All Your Favorite Movies Throughout The Next Decade Moving On: A Murder on Park Boulevard Why Boardwalk Empire Has Always Been Extremely Good, But Never Great Ranking the Women in Don Draper’s … Read More

The Year of Going There (& Back Again)

The most pivotal moment for me occurred during a downpour 30 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. It was nightfall, April 4th, and I had driven 500 miles, my first significant jaunt behind the wheel in more than a decade. The rain … Read More

Sissy Spacek @ 65

Originally published in the Untitled Magazine on December 15, 2014. The story of Sissy Spacek is a story based on family. It is the story of a poor girl, from Texas, a shy girl, a homecoming queen. It is the … Read More

Good Pictures/Bad Camera: The Very Best of 2014

Click through for full-image gallery. … Read More

Moving On: A Dime & A Dream

It began as a series of dots, each of them free-falling toward earth, a static shroud of gray behind. There was music, rounds of clapping, clasping hands despite no sun. There was the buzz, and then the cut, of engines; … Read MoreRead More

John Cheever on The Old New York (1978)

“These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with a river light, when you heard the Benny Goodman quartets from a radio in the corner stationery store, … Read More

A Murder on Park Boulevard

By Bob Hill “Hey, Fred.” This is what Robert Connors said. He was buzzed, but not drunk, slumped alone over a barstool at the Firehouse Tavern around 2 AM. It was the second Friday in May, a week prior to when … Read MoreRead More

Nick Cave on The Power of Ideas (2014)

“All of our days are numbered. We cannot afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at all, because the worth of the idea never becomes apparent until you do it. Sometimes … Read More