Jeffrey York

An ensemble movie and its script must recognize why such an ensemble is needed and what’s at stake in such a story.

We can’t recognize escapism any more when hard truths are staring back at us every morning in the mirror.

At his age, he had plenty of wisdom to draw upon and apply to the characters he was auditioning to play.

Sticking the landing of a script is tricky. It can’t be too predictable, yet it needs to feel wholly appropriate, justifiable, and even inevitable in its way.

One has to hand it to a show like Severance as it’s not only chock full of metaphors about the dumbing down of America and the corruption of information sharing, but it's doing so on a platform run by those they are critiquing.

Why is Oscar season, the time of year when Hollywood has to do nothing but laud themselves, wrought with such silliness, offensiveness, and controversy?

If a writer is going to present his POV in those big, neon letters, becoming almost strident in his or her moral clarity, then one should hope to be as clever as Sorkin.

It’s a bumpy journey, full of twists and turns that you won’t see coming, but the last thing you should do is stop.

By sanding off the edges, these new versions wholly sacrificed most of the fun and audacity that made the originals so popular in the first place.

It’s in human nature to dread pain and failure.

Michael Corleone. Ferris Bueller. Beatrix Kiddo. John Wick. What do these four famous film characters have in common, other than that they all hail from classic movies?

Is anything harder in the world of fictional storytelling than coming up with an ending to a mystery that no one sees coming?

Does the Bond franchise continue along the grittier Craig path? Or does it turn Bond back into more of the gentleman spy from the original Fleming books?

Do most filmmakers consider it too gauche to center a film around a monster these days?

When the lights go down in the theater, I’m always hopeful that a sequel will rise to the challenge of making more out of its task than just being a quick money-grab.