Where Audiences Become Authors

Like many others who went to experience Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, I left the theater, but the movie did not leave me. While there is so much to break down and discuss about this film, I would like to focus on a specific moment that stuck with me. As a young kid, I remember (not in its entirety) reading Homer's The Odyssey and really taking an interest into the way this story was told. A lot of it is remembered in bits and pieces for me, but one moment that I never forg

A majority of the movie industry has lost the "why". It’s times like now, filmmakers like Nolan, Villeneuve, Scorsese, Tarantino, amongst a small number of others stand out and will be remembered for future generations to enjoy. Their love for the art keeps the passion and vitality of filmmaking alive. Somewhere along the modern filmmaking way, we started losing the reason why we make movies. Greed has corrupted the love and ambition of storytelling. Writers are afraid to tak

I always feel like an old head when I say this, but they truly do not make movies like this anymore. Thief was written and directed by Michael Mann and released on March 27, 1981. This is widely considered one of James Caan's best roles, not only by the audience, but according to him as well. Caan was quoted as saying how difficult this character was to play because, "The way I work, I like to be emotionally available, but this guy is available to nothing." James Caan display