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Bombast
Bombast: Posthumous Performance
By
Nick Pinkerton
March 27, 2015
Mortality bites: a consideration of actors who died before finishing their final films
Bombast: Notes on the Vanity Film
By
Nick Pinkerton
March 13, 2015
DIY with a difference: wading into the strange and terrible waters of narcissistic film projects
Bombast: Subterranean Hot Take Blues
By
Nick Pinkerton
February 27, 2015
Don’t you have to see the movie? On the practice of cultural commentary without culture
Bombast: Everywhere with Helicopter
By
Nick Pinkerton
February 20, 2015
Slipping the surly bonds of Earth: a brief history of the technology and artistry behind aerial shots
Bombast: Lizabeth Scott
By
Nick Pinkerton
February 13, 2015
The fall of man: the noir star of
Pitfall
and
Too Late for Tears
who was more than a pretty face or femme fatale
Bombast: 2014: The Year We Made Content
By
Nick Pinkerton
January 30, 2015
Bad timing: a more considered approach to the best (and worst) of last year's films
Bombast: True Enough
By
Nick Pinkerton
January 23, 2015
Honesty is the best policy: on the urge to reconcile history and fiction in
American Sniper
and
Selma
Bombast: Holiday Tour
By
Nick Pinkerton
January 9, 2015
Multiplexing across America: a look at theaters in Miami, Cincinnati, the Bronx, and Florence, Kentucky
Bombast: The Black List
By
Nick Pinkerton
December 23, 2014
Inside track or well-traveled rut? The highly marketable roster of unproduced screenplays known as The Black List gets a needed dose of skepticism
Bombast: George Armitage
By
Nick Pinkerton
December 5, 2014
Career criminal: a closer look at the unsung director of
Miami Blues
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