Jeff York is an optioned screenwriter, film critic, illustrator, and ad man. He’s also a member of the Chicago Indie Critics, SAG-AFTRA, and a cat lover.
Indeed, clothes not only make the man (or woman), but they can tell us so much about a character the second they appear on screen.
Look, you’re probably on your cellphone constantly anyway, so maybe it’s time to make more out of your time there.
Look, I understand that it’s called show business, not show art, but still, where is the show part in so many of these tin-eared studio exec’s equations?
Getting a fractured audience’s attention is getting harder and harder.
I’m all for pushing envelopes, but should cringe be a part of awards show comedy?
It is a shining example of how a film can be distinguished just as much by what its script doesn’t reveal as what it does.
Foreign films generally assume the audience is savvier, capable of putting two and two together without having to shove things down their throat.
Such decisions may get called out, but they are still artistic decisions and that’s where much of the slippery slope of Cancel Culture starts to poison all the water.
But since 2012, there have been precious few political thrillers popping up on the big screen. Why? It’s not like there aren’t stories ripe for the picking ...
It’s not CGI. We buy it because seeing is believing.
The debate won’t focus on what we allow A.I. to do, but rather, how much we allow it to do.
If Martin Scorsese doesn’t act bigger than the gods, no one should.
To paraphrase Logan Roy, we are not serious people.
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