My journey into film

We talk about “The Revenant” and how taking risks in art, even in a commercial industry, can be game changing. It might be scary and uncharted territory, but in the end you may just give people something they’ve never experienced before.

via The Reward of Taking Creative Risks — The B&E Podcast

I been waiting for this. Check out her web series AwkwardBlack Girl.

One of the chief joys of “Insecure” — HBO’s new half-hour comedy from the mind of co-creator, executive producer, and star Issa Rae — is listening to its characters talk. The dialogue of the show is a combination of cadence, vocabulary, and implication that is both brilliant and not-safe-for-work. In one scene, when Issa (Rae,……

via TV Review: HBO’s ‘Insecure’ — Variety

Adam Driver plays a bus driver and an aspiring poet named Paterson living in Paterson, N.J., in Jim Jarmusch’s aptly titled film “Paterson.” The poetic nature of it all isn’t lost on the movie’s characters … or its audience. The first trailer for the movie offers a two-minute-30-second look at Paterson’s humdrum daily routine, with a few……

via Adam Driver Waxes Poetic in ‘Paterson’ First Trailer — Variety

The word “cinema” can mean a lot of things, but to a great many people (maybe too many), it now means sitting back and watching visually hypnotic, rhythmically energized, in-your-face stuff all happening right before your childishly privileged eyeballs: superheroes flying and morphing and defying death, gun battles and explosions and spectacularly choreographed vehicular mayhem, animated……

via The Iranian Master Abbas Kiarostami Turned the Cinema Into a Mesmerizing Meditation — Variety

Vice Media is expanding its youth-oriented media empire by doubling down on art and fashion: The company announced that it has acquired Garage Magazine, a London-based twice-yearly publication covering art, architecture, fashion and design, and will launch a new digital channel based on the mag’s brand. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. Garage was founded in……

via Vice Buys Garage Magazine, Will Launch Digital Channel for Art, Fashion and Architecture — Variety

One of the true pleasures of HBO’s “Game of Thrones” the last few seasons has been seething at the outrages committed by oleaginous psychopath Ramsay Bolton. And now, thanks to Big Data, it’s clear that TV viewers are highly motivated to watch a show if they hate something about it. For dramas and reality shows, various……

via Data Science Proves We Love to Hate-Watch TV — Variety

Interesting.  Oh the writer uses oleaginous incorretly.

The problem with “Game Of Thrones,” from its inception at HBO, was that the story didn’t have an ending. The same month that the series debuted, the impatient fan community around “A Song Of Ice And Fire” author George R.R. Martin — who had already been, for years, “GRRuMbling” to themselves that these books were……

via Is ‘Game of Thrones’ Too Big to Build a Satisfying Ending? — Variety

USA Network has ordered a pilot for the 1930-set drama “Damnation,” created by “Longmire” alum Tony Tost. The project hails from Universal Cable Productions. Tost and James Mangold are exec producing with Management 360’s Guymon Casady and Daniel Rapport. “Damnation” revolves around a man masquerading as a small-town preacher in Iowa who aims to launch an……

via USA Network Orders Drama Pilot ‘Damnation’ — Variety

This looks interesting and maybe something to follow.