Tom Brogan

Annand previously did a great book and exhibi...
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I enjoyed screenwriter Brian Koppelman's appearance on WTF with Marc Maron. The discussion over the relevance of Koppelman's attempt at stand-up was an entertaining exchange.

Here's an interview with Koppleman in the New Yorker.

“I’ve seen so many people sitting at coffee shops in L.A. reading ‘Save the Cat’ or Robert McKee’s ‘Story,’ ” he says, “And those are classic books. But they make you think only one thing is commercial, and commerce creates barriers. They think this ...
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The AV Club do a good feature called Random Roles where actors who've got a large body of work behind them talk honestly about the parts they've done. The latest one is Martin Starr, who you may have seen in Silicon Valley, Freaks and Geeks or Knocked Up. My favourite series he was a big part of was the cancelled well before its time Party Down.

"It was such a fun, inviting group that we really—I mean, that was as fun as it could’ve been, and every job should be that enjoyable, and everybo...
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Over on Twitter a while ago Chris Ward tweeted that Gene Hackman should be as much loved by the internet as Bill Murray. Grantland has a profile of Hackman looking at some of his 79 films and reminding us that while he may be retired he's still one of the greatest living actors.

"He couldn’t have planned it this way, but Hackman had aged into a screen persona — he looked like he had spent years driving a truck or working as a doorman before lucking into the movies, because that’s basical...
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For my money Our Friends in the North is one of the best things that's ever been on British television. Broadcast in 1996 it tells the story of a group of friends in a changing Britain over a period of nearly 30 years. As part of The Guardian's 'How We Made' series, actor Christopher Eccleston and writer Peter Flannery talk about putting it on screen.

"It was hard. It took nine months to film and one of the directors left a few months after we started shooting in 1995. The very first episode...
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Bobcat Goldthwait has been one of my favourite filmmakers of the last few years. World's Greatest Dad and God Bless America in particular have become two of my favourite ever films.

His new film, which is at Sundance, is a documentary. 'Call Me Lucky' tells the story of Barry Crimmins, a comedian from San Francisco. Boing Boing has an interview with Goldthwait and Crimmins.

"Goldthwait: It’s been a really strange year for me, probably the roughest year of my life. Divorce, then my best frie...
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I've been enjoying season 10 of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Two episodes in and both of them have been laugh out loud funny. This is from the extras on the season 4 DVD. It's the live performance of The Nightman Cometh.


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I've been slowly making my way through Annie Baker's Vermont plays. A collection of four plays all set in the same small town in Vermont. So far I've only finished the first one, The Aliens.

This is Annie Baker interviewed in Elle. 

...Baker will gorge on reading for months before she even starts to write; then she tries to escape any "ideas" she has acquired in favor of building a world within an imagined physical space—the dueling theaters of The Flick, for example, or the fluorescent-lit c...
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