Reflexive Indies: The Dream Factory

When one considers the enormous success of American cinema, or ‘The Dream Factory’, as a cultural form since its inception … More

Critique: ‘The Jazz Singer’ (1927)

Whilst The Jazz Singer can be categorised as a musical, the film is a Hollywood landmark for the talking that … More

Even before one considers the details presented by the labyrinthine plot, Gone with the Wind is an epic Hollywood film … More

Steve Buscemi’s first directorial and screenwriting outing trades on the one thing that we know about Steve Buscemi: that he … More

Bryan Singer is best known as the director of The Usual Suspects (1994), and the superhero epics X-Men (2000) and … More

The central conceit of David O Russell’s debut feature that will stay with you after watching the film is that … More

This is the film that should have launched the directorial career of Michel Gondry and built upon the developing reputation … More

Sandwiched between the irreverence of O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), and the Hollywood romance of Intolerable Cruelty (2003), The … More

Straight Out of Brooklyn was made on a budget of less than $500,000 and achieved a domestic gross of $2.7 … More

Charlie Kaufman is the author of the screenplays Being John Malkovich (1999), Human Nature (2001), Confessions of a Dangerous Mind … More