by James Tarr | Jun 10, 2021 | Articles
It was in the 1980s that the American movie culture exploded in size. Theaters went from one screen to two to twenty, and the number of films being released every year dramatically increased to keep those screens filled. Those multi-plexes—some of them located in...
by James Tarr | May 14, 2021 | Articles
After once again struggling, and failing, to make it through more than two episodes of Blindspot, I am reminded that it often takes quite a bit of work to “write smart”, and smart writing is the exception rather than the rule when it comes to network TV. Blindspot is...
by James Tarr | Apr 12, 2021 | Articles
The below article was originally posted to my Handguns Magazine Website blog Carry On in 2012, and to this day it is one of the most favorite articles I’ve ever done. Many of those blog posts seem to have disappeared from the internet, as has the blog itself,...
by James Tarr | Mar 31, 2021 | Articles
It’s long been said there are no new ideas. No new plots, no new characters, no new forms of evil or sexual peccadilloes—somebody, at some point in history, has been there and done that. I was reminded of this recently while watching The Rhythm Section (2020) on...
by James Tarr | Mar 11, 2021 | Articles
“Don’t remake great movies; remake movies that should have been great, but weren’t.” The above quote, from a well-known director whose name I can’t recall, I saw in an issue of the now-defunct Premiere magazine twenty years ago. It has stuck with me because of how...
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