UNFORGIVEN I love this film for a number of reasons. Mostly it showed us the consequences of killing someone and the cast was just amazing on every level. THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES This is the one that was my “JONAH HEX” movie for real. When I was younger I liked the...
Watch: LONESTAR– My first crooked cop crush was on Matthew McConaughey’s Buddy Deeds from John Sayles’ 1996 flick about the discovery of a shallow grave outside a small border town in Texas. The moral complexities of the character were a revelation to me. Yes he...
Today we have a specific genre we call Crime Fiction, but crime in fiction existed long before that label existed. The early stories in Classical Greek drama are tales of incest, murder, rape and mutilation. The Bible offers equally terrible atrocities. Think of...
As a child growing up, my mother was always singing, and I was fascinated by songs she chose – traditional songs, hymns, hits from American musicals, pop songs in the ‘hit parade’ as we called it then. For some reason I thought that the lyrics of these songs would...
I read a lot of screenplays. Most of them are terrible. But when I find a diamond, the experience is intensely pleasurable—I’m swept along in the story, whipping through the pages, desperate to find out what happened to the characters I’ve fallen in love with....
Editor's note: Last month, John and I got to talking about our 2013 experiences and the things that stuck with us. With that in mind, John has taken the time to talk about five things that had an impact on him. Not all are new, just things that inspired him. Five...
