Trailer Tuesday: Lone Survivor (2013)
Release Date: December 27, 2013 (limited)/ January 10, 2014 (wide) Director: Peter Berg Writer: Peter Berg Actors: Mark Wahlberg, Ben Foster, Eric Bana, Taylor Kitsch, Emile Hirsch
Trailer Tuesday: The Spectacular Now (2013)
Release Date: August 2nd, 2013 (limited) Director: James Ponsoldt Writers: Scott Neustadter, Michael H. Weber, Tim Tharp (novel) Stars: Shailene Woodley, Miles Teller, Kyle Chandler
TV Review: Friday Night Lights (2006-2011)
I’m not really into sports. But Peter Berg‘s 2004 high school football movie Friday Night Lights is one of my favorite sports movies. Its even distribution of small town pressure and college hopes gives the characters realistically high stakes, making for a suspenseful and even heartbreaking movie experience. The score, prominently featuring the music of Explosions in the Sky, sets […]
Editorial: Bates Motel and the Horror Genre on Television
Thanks to The Walking Dead and American Horror Story, the horror genre is in the midst of its biggest television presence since Tales from the Crypt camped up the airwaves of the 1990s. Now A&E is trying to get in on the ground floor by taking a beloved character of the genre and enlisting network hit makers to create a […]
The Obsessive Viewer 