The Purchase Independent

By James Madejski
Last week I mentioned that it’s a miracle any film gets made considering the amount of time and effort that collaborators must endure in order to bring a specific artistic vision to the screen. The director gets the credit for the success or failure of the final product, yet his job is mainly [...]

By James Madejeski
It would only be appropriate to recommend a few horror titles in honor of the quickly approaching Halloween weekend. Alas, gentle reader, I regret to inform you that while I can spit sermons on the careers of Dario Argento or George A. Romero, I find the horror genre particularly hard to dissect. For [...]

By James Madejeski
Last week, many attended “Harlan Jacobson’s Talk Cinema” pre-release showing of Grant Helsov’s The Men Who Stare at Goats, an all-star comedy featuring Ewan McGregor, George Clooney, Jeff Bridges, and Kevin Spacey set in the early days of the Iraq War. While the laughs were abundant throughout and there were a few scenes [...]

by Isaiah Campbell
Common consensus is that a book is always better than its film adaptation. Take for instance the Harry Potter series or the popular Twilight franchise; as hard as the films try, they cannot compare to the personal experience of reading such imaginative novels. When it comes to children’s books coming to life in [...]

By James Madejesky
An enjoyable cinematic pastime is to dissect a genre, finding out why certain films do what they do, which hopefully will combat the use of the inarguable defense of “It’s a [genre] movie, what do you expect?” So in my first installment of “Genre Dissection Mania” (title subject to change)…I offer to you [...]