Is there a more pretentious genre than the musician biopic?  While there can be plenty of fun moments (after all who doesn’t want to be a rock star?) Overall, the genre tends to take itself WAY too seriously. Cue the disapproving father, the dark period where the drugs and groupies take over, the inevitable redemption…

There is an undeniable bias in the world of critique that the novel is always superior to the film. That films are somehow a lesser form of art than the written word. In this episode, we challenge that notion and talk about literary adaptations that are just as good or sometimes even better than the…

Is a movie controversial, or just ahead of its time? As we evolve and change as a society, it makes sense that our perceptions of art will change as well. The Birth of a Nation (1915) was so popular in its time it was screened at the white house, but is now widely condemned for…