Author: Rob Kirchgassner

Movies / Text
· by · Apr 3, 2017

How influential are film critics?

Recently, director Brett Ratner claimed that the relative failure of Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, which his company RatPac Entertainment co-financed, can be solely blamed on the website Rotten Tomatoes. For those not in the know, Rotten Tomatoes…
Movies / Text
· by · Dec 16, 2016

The kinship between Jaws and Taxi Driver

So on the one hand, these two movies, which were released within less than a year of each other, couldn’t be more different. But given that both were released in the middle of the American Film Renaissance of the 1970s, it can be argued that there's a kinship of sorts between these two classics.
Movies / Text
· by · Nov 3, 2016

10 great double feature ideas

Since the advent of home video and later the internet, people can now have double features of all kinds in their own homes. Here now (in no particular order) are 10 great double features you can have at home and why I find them ideal.
Agonizer / Interviews / Text
· by · Oct 18, 2016

Interview with Benita Ha

Benita Ha is a Canadian actress who's appeared in numerous movies and television shows, including X-Men: The Last Stand. She's also lent her voice to a number of video games, and is also a nurse! I recently had the pleasure of interviewing this talented lady.
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· by · Sep 19, 2016

Calvin and Hobbes (1985-1995)

It probably goes without saying that the most influential comic strip of our time is Charles Schulz’s Peanuts. While certainly not the first strip to appear in daily newspapers, Schulz made Charlie Brown, Snoopy...

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