Shane Black knows his hard-boiled detective fiction. This last decade he showed this in his directorial debut, Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang, which referenced classic fiction—real and imagined—but…  read review

Some start with the story, finding the journey and, from that, deducing the parts—the characters, context and specific steps necessary to accomplish the story. Some start with the idea, letting that…  read review

The Men Who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail is not only a short film, at less than an hour in length, it is also more reminiscent of a short story or a short play in its structure: it eschews any…  read review