by Joseph Rossi Pacific Rim is everything I’ve ever wanted to see in a popcorn movie. It’s huge, loud, thrilling and emotional. It doesn’t dumb down character in service of the spectacle. The film embraces its characters as well as its size cumulating in a genre movie lover’s paradise. This isn’t stuffy, pretentious or dry. […]
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Difficult Men: Behind the Scenes of a Creative Revolution by Brett Martin (The Penguin Press, $29.50)
By Andreas Kessaris for Curtains Up! “…shifting economics revealed that maybe it had always been advertisers, rather than audiences, who were so averse to difficult characters…” -from Difficult Men by Brett Martin Over the last decade there has been a changeover in prestige from the cinema […]
Attempting Normal by Marc Maron (Spiegel & Grau, $29.95)
By Stuart Nulman I first saw Marc Maron perform at the Just For Laughs festival back in 2009. He was appearing at the Theatre St. Catherine with his one-man show “Scorching the Earth”, as part of the festival’s Flying Solo Series. I didn’t know much about him, but I decided to give it a shot […]