With just over a week until the film premieres, The Jungle Book is all we can talk about in upcoming movies. They released their trailer Friday and have been showing debuting images and sneak peeks for months. But of all the forms of…
House of Cards: Season 4, Episodes 49-52
The end is nigh—or so we think. In the final episodes of season four, we come to terms with what’s going on from the start: Claire and Frank never truly loved each other but rather are a political union made…
Everything is Copy: Nora Ephron’s Journey in Writing About Her Life
Heartburn. When Harry Met Sally… . Sleepless in Seattle. Julia & Julia. None of these films would have been had Nora Ephron not wrote—or sometimes directed—them. Ephron wrote articles for the New York Post, essays for Esquire, scripts for television,…
House of Cards: Season 4, Episodes 46-48
Dramatic irony: when the audience finally understands what’s going on in that another character might not know. Now this gets used all the time in plays and dramatic works, and often to deepen the sense of suspense the audience now…
House of Cards: Season 4, Episodes 43-45
For the most part, everyone, even those who have never seen House of Cards, knows it’s about politics and the power plays behind every action. But most of all, they know it’s about trust and the loss of trust: it…
House of Cards: Season 4, Episodes 40-42 Review
Man oh man. I mean, it still doesn’t live up to the “I killed a recurring character in the first episode” act that House of Cards pulled in season two, but it introduces the ever wonderful Ellen Burstyn as Claire’s…
