Jon Abrams
Jon Abrams was born & raised in New York, and studied Film Studies and English at Wesleyan University. He has worked in and around the Los Angeles film & television industry in just about every possible capacity for the past seven years. Jon is occasionally best known as a working writer & cartoonist.
Blogs by this Author
If the new movie Legion is to be believed, God is a woman. We get a brief glimpse into Heaven late in the film, and it looks like a Calvin Klein perfume ad, with blue-eyed white-winged...
Cold, cold, cold. That's all I hear about, the second the thermometer drops below 40. At this time of year, the air occasionally goes scrotum-shrivellingly cold, so it's a g...
Brothers is a movie that has kind of slipped through the cracks. It showed up towards the end of 2009, but not in enough time for me to see it for my Best-Of list. It’s bee...
Could anybody possibly care about what I have to say about tonight’s Golden Globes? What if I offered the phrase “mini-meltdown?” I dutifully watched the Awards...
Daybreakers is a horror/sci-fi mash-up that shows us a world where the vampires have won out over humanity, but the supply of human beings that they keep in order to harvest the blood they n...
For my 100th column here, I’m going to mention the ten movies released within the Ground Zero Decade that I can’t do without. That’s right: I’ve taken to callin...
The following is a fairly thorough run-down of everything else that was annoying, infuriating, or brilliant about movies in 2009. I’m pretty sure that the majority of entries on ...
…But first, my top five documentaries! This was a great year for movies I liked, great enough that I can make a second list for documentaries. As usual, I didn’t see ...
Sure would seem like a good year to be South Africa, cinematically speaking. First they send us the thoroughly awesome District 9, and then the legendary Clint Eastwood comes to town t...
Avatar is like nothing you’ve ever seen before, even though you’ve absolutely seen this story many times before. Is that a coy contradiction? Is it a negative...
