Daniel Thron is a writer-director living in Los Angeles. To pay rent, however, he works in visual effects for film as a matte painter, and his work can be seen in OBLIVION, REAL STEEL, and David Fincher’s ZODIAC. You can find his extremely tense and effective zombie short film SPOILER here. I read Daniel’s thoughts on the coming television landscape […]
Read moreAs someone who was born in the state of Alabama, it’s impossible for me to watch Roll Tide/War Eagle, the latest production from ESPN Films, without feeling some pretty intense emotions. As you’ll see in the film, which airs Tuesday night at 8 pm Eastern on ESPN, being a part of this rivalry means that true objectivity and impartiality is […]
Read moreFor the first time in this series I’m profiling a show that hasn’t yet completed its run, which of course leaves open the possibility that the show will go out like many potentially great shows have before it by either overstaying its welcome or betraying its own identity and losing track of what made it so great. In this case, […]
Read moreIn the wake of Aaron Sorkin‘s Oscar win for his brilliant screenplay for The Social Network, I thought I’d take the opportunity to look back at what I believe to be the most underrated work of Sorkin’s illustrious career. After bursting onto the scene as a Hollywood screenwriter and playwright, Sorkin first entered the world of television drama in 1998 […]
Read moreFirst things first: welcome to our new regular feature here on FilmNerds that we’re calling TV for FilmNerds. This feature came out of my many conversations and experiences with fellow film lovers in which I discovered a prevailing bias by some of the more discriminating film fans against that infernal household appliance known as the television. Over the years, I’ve […]
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