Last year I got really depressed about Gene Hackman.I was watching a lot of his movies for no particular reason (according to Letterboxd he was my most watched actor for 2024) and the fact that he hadn’t made a movie since 2004 started to just…
Hey all! Closing Night, the sort of spiritual sister of The Industry, has returned for a second season. If you’re not familiar with Closing Night, I’ll fill you in. Host Patrick Oliver Jones (a seasoned theater actor himself) dives into…
Episode four of my five episode limited series Stories My Brother Used To Tell is here. It's 1987 and 18 year old Eric has bought his first car, a 1978 Dodge Challenger. Well, okay, his first legal car. It's pretty. It's sporty. It …
Episode two of my five episode limited series Stories My Brother Used To Tell is here. What's it about? Following the aftermath of the episode one Eric, a is 16-year-old without a car or driver's license working away at a pizzeria in a mall.…
Before I embark on the next season of The Industry, I am taking a detour to make a small semi-personal limited series. If you're subscribed to The Industry then you have probably already noticed the trailer to Stories My Brother Used To Tell in your…
After years away the FX series Justified has returned to the small screen with the limited series Justified: City Primeval. In this continuation US Marshal Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant) is stuck in Detroit trying to solve the murder of a not so h…
Everyone loves a movie ranking, right? So, with a new Mission Impossible movie out there in the world I thought I would add to the noise by giving the definitive ranking of this series! I will point out that this is a series that I truly enjoy and l…
I recently came across some fairly unique marketing that was used for the movie ROAR, a movie which was covered on The Industry in 2021, It's a series of ROAR comic strips were made and printed in British comic books to help spread the word a…
Recently Criterion, the prestige DVD makers, had one of their flash sales. Fifty percent off! Normally, I am able to resist such things, but I decided I would get one for my daughter (Bottle Rocket). However, while I was browsing the site, I came ac…
The first episode of my LET IT RIDE podcast, The Jockey Club has been released. Well, it's the episode before the first episode. An episode zero. In it I speak with Blake Howard from One HEAT Minute Productions, the king of podcasts that look…
