Scott Nye
Spending most of his time as a student of film and media studies at Emerson College in Boston, Scott Nye can be found in Portland, OR a few months out of every year. He has a history with comic books and a background in high school theatre, but try not to hold either against him.
Blogs by this Author
I’ve written and scrapped and written and scrapped a half-dozen
reviews of this film. I’ve considered that maybe I need to go back and
watch it again, and only then will I be able to gra...
Let’s say, for all intents and purposes, this last summer began May 1st with the release of X-Men Origins: Wolverine,
a title barely acceptable in comic book form, but unrelentingly dumb
for a...
Over at USA Today, national enemy of thinking people, Scott Bowles, Film Editor and guy who believes that films suffer when their main character is unlikable, posted an article surveying the summer's ...
Martin Scorsese's new film Shutter Island has been pushed back
from October 2nd, the heart of Oscar season and frequently my favorite
month at the movies, to February 19th of next year, a dumping gr...
So I'm working on expanding a piece I wrote about Howard Hawks' Red River,
and it'd been awhile since I worked on the piece or saw the film, so I
popped on over to Netflix to stream it. Naturally, t...
I have some good news and some bad news – District 9 is at once a whole lot smarter and a whole lot dumber than just about everyone would have you believe.Let’s
start with the smart, sinc...
As is my habit on Saturday nights and Sunday mornings, I rushed over to
the NYTimes.com movies section to see what their feature articles would
be this week (a habit born from the days when my paren...
Elizabethtown came out in
October of 2005, and I was the only person at my school who cared that
it existed, and the only person (at the time) who fell for it. The past
few years have been about co...
This is inspired by a recent post at my girlfriend’s blog,
who talked about her favorite representations of New York in cinema.
Partially to show her up, and partially because about half of he...
Michael Clayton, Tony Gilroy’s
Oscar-nominated directorial debut, was one of my favorite movies of
2007, and it remains as compulsively watchable as the first time I saw
it. I love the way Gi...
