by Christian Hartsock | Oct 15, 2019 | Featured Story, Nonfiction, Read
Chinatown - Dissecting the Screenplay By Christian Hartsock ; Robert Towne’s Chinatown is some of the most efficient screenwriting in the history of screenwriting and storytelling. Yet it never feels as if it’s in a hurry. It isn’t, like most linear story...
by David Churchill Barrows | Aug 11, 2019 | Issue No 5, Nonfiction, Read
Hiram the Horse Whisperer By David Churchill Barrow ; Hiram’s dad, Jesse, had no worries, despite the smirk on the carnival barker’s face. This was a sure bet. Everyone knew these carnival ponies were trained to throw young boys on command, but the locals in the...
by Michael Toscano | Aug 3, 2019 | Issue No 4, Nonfiction, Read
The Icon and the Idol The Finale of Sergei Eisenstein By Michael Toscano ; Russian memory knows Tsar Ivan IV, first tsar of all the Russias (1530 to 1584), as a dark figure: a man of unnatural lusts, a diseased mind and vampiric tastes for blood. Ivan is known as...
by Laila AiSiss | Jul 11, 2019 | Issue No 5, Nonfiction, Read
Life in Lebanon By Laila Ai-Sisssi ; The sky appeared grey before it turned black. Walls of white foam trailed me with an amplified angry roar. I swam faster until my arms felt like sandbags. On the verge of drowning, Rawyia’s voice echoed as if reverberating from the...
by Anne Butcher | Jul 11, 2019 | Issue No 4, Nonfiction, Read
Introducing a New Bingeworthy Super Hero Series By Anne Butcher ; Over the past decade, superheroes have supersaturated the entertainment industry. We’ve seen numerous films and television shows, and there’s no sign of the genre’s popularity dying anytime soon. With...
by P.J. Walsh | Jul 11, 2019 | Issue No 4, Nonfiction, Read
A Visit to Storm King Art Center By P.J. Walsh ; …before the mind intoxicateWith present objects and the busy danceOf things that pass away, a temperate showOf objects that endure.—Wordsworth I guess it started with Instagram. Not a very high-minded medium, but there...
Chinatown – Dissecting the ScreenplayIn Featured Story, Nonfiction, ReadIn what a lesser film would treat as a forgettably functional, utilitarian scene in service of the next story beat, Towne infuses with situational humor, interpersonal politics, colorful character beats and mundane yet identifiable and immediately relatable stakes--on top of a stirring cornerstone revelation.
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