Thinking Out Loud

Tag: Eric Stoltz

  • Before the Fall: The Caprica SyFy Series Premiere

    Before the Fall: The Caprica SyFy Series Premiere

    The recently concluded television series Battlestar Galactica (2003-2009) was critically acclaimed and much beloved by a relatively small group of fans and critics that appreciated the brainy show’s bleak, pessimistic view of humanity. It will certainly live forever as a classic achievement in television, but the common consensus is that it failed to reach the […]

  • Peter Bogdanovich’s Mask (Director’s Cut)

    Peter Bogdanovich’s Mask (Director’s Cut)

    I vaguely recall seeing Mask when I was a kid, but only recently learned A) it was directed by Peter Bogdanovich and B) there’s a well-regarded director’s cut available on DVD. The film is very unconventional for the genre of disabled-person-beating-the-odds. Roy, doomed to die from Craniodiaphyseal dysplasia, loses his friend, his girl, and dies […]