Philip Józef Brubaker
Plan B Makes Grade A Movie Goodness
Does the ‘B’ stand for Brad? It may as well: Plan B is the entertainment company co-founded by Brad Pitt back in 2001. They’ve been …
How Home Movies Capture the Beauty of the Everyday
You’ve seen them before — a sentimental moment where a character watches an old home movie of their loved ones. There’s something strikingly artificial about …
Is ‘Desperately Seeking Susan’ a Feminist Film?
Susan Seidelman’s classic mistaken identity comedy, Desperately Seeking Susan, is a charming time capsule of 1980s NYC, and quite arguably the best movie Madonna ever …
The Last Thing You’ll Hear
When a film ends, it’s the last line of dialogue that lingers in the mind. At least, for us. There are final lines of dialogue …
Exposing Exposition
Before a movie can proceed with its story, it needs to lay its narrative groundwork through exposition. However, exposition is often delivered in clunky and …
Scorsese’s Steadicam
Martin Scorsese’s films have a visual muscularity to them, and his use of the Steadicam is peerless in its virtuosity. Scorsese’s Steadicam swirls and swoops …
Terry Gilliam: Jung at Heart
Terry Gilliam has directed some of the most compelling fantasy films of all time. His vividly imagined tales have taken moviegoers to alternate realms, dystopian …