Originally published via the Untitled Magazine on February 15th, 2015. Assuming you have seen the one-minute Jurassic World trailer that ran during the Super Bowl – and, let’s be honest, who hasn’t? – you know it opens on a clip featuring a five-ton Mosasaurus swallowing a great … Read More
Author Archives: Bob Hill
William Styron on Melancholia (That Is to Say, ‘Depression’)
“In depression this faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent. The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition intolerable is the foreknowledge that no remedy will come – not in a day, an hour, a month, or a … Read More
Moving On: Blowout
The initial puncture threw me for a jolt, the right side of the vehicle sinking low onto the road. I was doing 80 in a 65, driving somebody else’s Impala, and I could hear the tiny pebbles turf like rock … Read More
Juno (105th to 42nd Street)
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‘Selma’: Resolving the Dilemma Between a Great Motion Picture and Culturally-Relevant One
In 1993, Denzel Washington was nominated for an Academy Award based on his lead role in Malcolm X. Washington lost that year, to Al Pacino (for Scent of a Woman), and in the wake of it, Director Spike Lee went … Read More
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