Tag: unforgiven

  • Deconstructing Genre: Screenwriting

    *In response to the popularity of my Fireproof article, here is another screenwriting article. Deconstructing Genre Is something tough to do. It seems like it should be easy right? But it’s not that easy, movies that just point out genre cliches (i.e. something like The Comebacks) tend to be pretty bad. Because just pointing out…

  • Grrrr!

    Gran Torino Review If there’s anyone who tempts you to utter the phrase, “lovably racist”, it’s Clint Eastwood in Gran Torino. Relax, I’m not saying he’s lovably racist. But he is lovable. And racist. Sure it’s not okay that he calls every Asian person gook, and responds to his barber’s request for 10 bucks for…