Articles by James Keast

Rock

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

More than perhaps any other genre, rock sub-categories have long been driven more by marketing and the lazy tendencies of journalists than...

Fight Club

David Fincher

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

If Fight Club only lived up to the expectations of its cast (Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham Carter), its director David Fincher (S...

Being John Malkovich

Spike Jonze

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

A quick glance at the marquee of your average gigaplex will tell you that there aren't too many original ideas out there, but even without...

The Straight Story

David Lynch

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

It's an unusual story for a number of reasons. It's true, for one thing - a 73-year-old man named Alvin Straight, too old to drive a car an...

Snow Falling On Cedars

Scott Hicks

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

In following up his acclaimed Shine, director Scott Hicks has taken on a substantial challenge in trying to adapt best-selling novel Snow F...

Darren Aronofsky

Darren Aronofsky

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

You know when the refrigerator lunges at you, your diet is going badly. Ellen Burstyn might have come to that conclusion earlier in her spe...

Ang Lee

Ang Lee

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

Taiwanese-born director Ang Lee (Sense and Sensibility, The Ice Storm) isn't the first person you'd expect to direct a stunning, genre-hono...

Pop Strife: The Reinvention of Mass Culture

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

I can sing the theme song to early '80s sitcom WKRP In Cincinnati. So can most people approximately my age. At the time, it stuck in my hea...