You hear it all too often. People preaching how a positive outlook on life, one’s overall confidence and self-esteem, are simply a state of mind. Like some switch that can just be turned on and off.

It doesn’t work that way, life doesn’t work that way.

When you are caught in a feedback loop of constant negative reinforcement—in Billy Brown’s case, an endless circle of abuse, betrayal, neglect, and humiliation—you will not see life the way somebody who has experienced…

There are actually two murderers: a bitter, insecure, capricious lover jealous over the partner’s affair with a big-time movie director, and the Hollywood system itself—whose bright lights and sirenous charms lure many a hopeful to their doom. So basically, the same culprits as Mulholland Drive. Lynch had to have taken inspiration, he simply must have…

In an ideal world, Dorothy Stratten’s life should have taken the Star is Born trajectory, with her husband removing himself from the picture in order…

From an ideological standpoint, worthy of the utmost contempt. For the longest time, there has been an effort to undermine Orson Welles' legacy, mostly on the part of Pauline Kael, the "brains" behind the slanderous bucket of lies known as "Raising Kane," and now David Fincher, with Mank, is the latest to jump on the dog-pile, putting forth the argument (a debunked one, mind you) that screenwriter Joseph L. Mankiewicz was the real genius behind Citizen Kane and that wonderkid…