POSTED // May 20,2011 - During The Greatest Movie Ever Sold—Morgan Spurlock’s documentary about his quest to finance the $1.5 million budget for the movie entirely through product placement ...

POSTED // May 13,2011 - You may have seen various re- creations of pioneer journeys; you might even have participated in re-creations as a Utahn from pioneer stock ...

POSTED // May 13,2011 - Former Saturday Night Live cast member Jane Curtin once confirmed that John Belushi, during his time on the show, loudly shared his opinion that “women are just fundamentally not funny” ...

POSTED // May 12,2011 - Not many stand-up comedians can boast a 30-year-plus professional career before they’ve sniffed their 50th birthday ...

POSTED // May 11,2011 - Comic-book “casting” has been going on for decades. Artists, after all, have probably the hardest job in comics.

POSTED // May 11,2011 - Four years of college. Graduate school. Early mornings. Occasional late nights. A time spent living in Seattle in the early ’90s, for God’s sake ...

POSTED // May 6,2011 - If you want to know how many reasons the makers of Thor have for not messing with the Marvel Comics movie formula, the answer is “$3.3 billion.”

POSTED // May 6,2011 - It was a bit of a surprise to some observers when Susanne Bier’s In a Better World took this year’s Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, but it probably shouldn’t have been. Melodrama, after all, is a universal language.

POSTED // May 5,2011 - Devotees of creative anachronism—those who dress in period costume to celebrate the era of knights, damsels and faeries—get a bad rap. Sure, their passion may not be...

POSTED // May 5,2011 - A tiny piece of film-history trivia—a day of location shooting in 1959 for Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho—provides the germ for a thrilling debut novel that’s about far more than trivia...