…or the lack of it.

He sat alone at the bar, with his cane leaning against his stool, and looked at the mirror behind the rows of bottles in front of him. He was a handsome man, with dark, solid features and dark, solid eyes. He wore his hair straight back, closely trimmed around the ears and nape, a holdover [...]

This trailer has stayed in my head more than any I’ve seen in a year.

I grew up in rural Georgia. Some of my best friends were hunters and gun enthusiasts. All my life, I’ve had an appreciation for the place of guns in America’s unique culture of robust personal liberty and responsibility. The longer I live, though, the more I understand that things cannot continue the way they have [...]

Here’s a short film that was written and shot last year. It was the first thing Michael and I made together, although it’s only just now being released. Considering the circumstances, I’m proud of what we came up with–especially Michael and the actors, working at odd hours in the late evening after he finished work [...]

Humans have pulled off some impossible, ridiculous, inspiring stunts. Check out a few of them in my latest piece on Mental_Floss here.

After reading every Slate remembrance, Vanity Fair obituary, and news flash about his death, I was glad to be able to share my own tidbit of tribute to a man we will never see another like. It was written with the help of Andrew Widener, which couldn’t have been more appropriate. I think he [...]

PBS recently released an exhaustive documentary of our most prolific living filmmaker. It’s all available online. Do yourself a favor and invest the time.

This is my second short-film exercise with Michael Sugrue. Be aware, this is R-rated.

Tupelo Shuffle from Michael Sugrue on Vimeo.

Listen to what these titans have to say about work, life, and whether film is the indigenous American art form. They met, appropriately enough, at Hemingways Lounge in Hollywood.