Landon Palmer

Best Picture Winners Aren’t Timeless, and ‘Tom Jones’ Proves It

A case study of how Best Picture winners age. Read More

The Limited Imagination of The Oscars

An exploration of film acting and how the Oscars might need to look at things differently in the future.In the third… Read More

Discovering David Bowie Through Movies

There is no wrong way or wrong time to enter the career of David Bowie. Of the many personae and… Read More

The Hollywood of 2015: Looking Forward to the Past and Back to the Future

In Back to the Future Part II, while Marty McFly surveys the strange landscape of Hill Valley in 2015, he… Read More

The Darkness of Steven Spielberg

Within the logo of Amblin Entertainment lies one of Steven Spielberg’s most iconic images: a boy flying on a bicycle… Read More

6 Filmmaking Tips from Satyajit Ray

“Young Satyajit Ray” by Unknown, From the book of Sandip Ray Ray’s Ravi Shankar.A few years ago, I had the pleasure… Read More

6 Filmmaking Tips from Penelope Spheeris

We explore the wisdom shared through the years by the 'Wayne's World' director. Read More

Why Ken Russell’s ‘The Devils’ Deserves Divine Resurrection

At the end of 1971, Warner Bros. had a massive controversy on their hands surrounding the release of Stanley Kubrick’s… Read More

5 Filmmaking Tips from Mission: Impossible Directors

Paramount PicturesThe Mission: Impossible franchise has proven to be remarkably durable for its near-twenty years of existence. And these films… Read More