Author: Scott Beggs

When you watch a commercial, do you trust it? Probably not. No matter how clever or cute or bizarre, ads rarely push companies to the…

Disney is keeping its enemies close. In an era marked both by highly visible social scrutiny and a growing Latino/Hispanic population, the company has pulled…

According to Exstreamist, who was nice enough to do the math, Netflix saves each average user 130 hours of commercials every year. That’s, wow, a…

We’re able to binge watch a lot of shows now. We can binge watch a Coen Brothers marathon, or wait for the current season of…

We’ve come to view film remakes as cash grabs, occasions for studios to utilize properties already in their grasp and exploit nostalgic memory to ease…

https://medium.com/media/03aeebdb91ac067dba5634e04f6abeff/href Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” isn’t a story anyone cares to be faithful to. That ship sailed at least 80 years ago when Boris Karloff and…

When I was in college I joked with a friend of mine that there were so many bands online that we could start a band…

Marvel Comics In his essential post-mortem on this blockbuster season, Mark Harris at Grantland notes that “2015 was always going to be a strange year…

https://medium.com/media/3e7311cc48e6aa447d9530a36834039d/href Short films have always been a method for getting into the right doors in Hollywood, but they’ve become increasingly popular as calling cards in…