Annals Of The Hive

The quality of our lives matters. We don't have the political clout to change economic policy in our favor.  We have to adapt to econo...

I am a product of the sixties. Mine is a sixties sensibility, reflecting on the media of the millennium from a low to middlebrow point of vi...

We're all McLuhanistas now. We take it for granted that the contents of each new medium, the World Wide Web, for example, is other medi...

For the maker of films there are thoughts, jottings, comments and notes here about how to make film from the world. Quentin Tarantino is rig...

I’m thinking about defending the studio system against promiscuous  auteurism . I suspect the studio system may be our best chance to mainta...

Compared to the action-packed super-realism of time travel films like the Terminator series,  12 Monkeys and Planet of the Apes , the black-...

When the world gets to be too much for me, I pull out one of my video collections and escape for a couple of days.  I have Angels In America...

I started Cassavetes' A Woman Under The Influence last night and I had to turn it off. I only got as far as Gena Rowlands coming back to...

There is an element of the hunt in documentary films, a delicious kind of trophy hunting at its lightest, but, at its heaviest, a predatory ...

Bring forth men-children only, for thy undaunted mettle should compose nothing but males. -- Macbeth Why do women tear other women down?  ...

Kathyrn Bigelow is about to become the first woman to win an Academy Award for Best Director. Whether she deserves the Best Director prize...