It has been a little over two months since Projektor was launched into cyberspace. In that time, I have uploaded essays and reviews of films by an array of directors, including Pedro Almodovar, Larry Charles, Sofia Coppola, Raymond De Felitta,
One fable can generate two contrasting films. We Can Remember it for You Wholesale, Philip K. Dick’s 1966 short story on synthetic memories, secret agents and interplanetary wars, was adapted for the screen by Paul Verhoeven in 1990’s Total Recall,
Some families are time bombs on the verge of detonation. Take the Rizzos of City Island. Father and patriarch Vince (Andy Garcia) is a tough-talking Corrections Officer who spends his free time covertly pursuing acting classes. His dissatisfied and jaded
Johnny Marco leads the kind of life most of us can only dream of. He is young, handsome and has instant access to the finer things: an uptown apartment, a slick, roaring, jet-black Ferrari and a legion of attractive, obliging
There are a handful of certainties in life. Bills. Taxes. Death. And high school. For some, the latter is by far the most petrifying. The American satirist Kurt Vonnegut Jr. once observed, ‘True terror is to wake up one morning