Jeffrey York

Our malaise has ended up yielding plenty of characters who in sunnier times would most likely have been the villains in a story.

Consider them positive thoughts, helpful suggestions, and a few cautionary warnings regarding the pursuit of cinema in Hollywood.

It might be the most clichéd of statements, but “if it’s not on the page, it’s not on the stage.”

Where Chu was truly brilliant as a director was in his innate understanding of the intimacy of film.

AMC, like it or not, stands as the poster child for all the tin-eared thinking that movie theaters are putting out these days ...

I’d bet on a variety show starring Taylor Swift versus sinking $200 million into another superhero saga any day of the week.

Shame is, in many ways, like that gun being held on a crowd. Everyone can relate.

Shows trying to tickle our funny bones have become so prolific that we have started to collectively yawn—it takes a lot more to stand out.

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.

... you need to make us want you again.