I feel like an apologist for complex filmmaking when I ask you to give Scott Pilgrim vs. the World a second watch, but perhaps I shouldn’t. This is a film that was made for people like me. Read More
PositionSenior Editor
JoinedMay 26, 2017
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Andrew Root is a Senior Editor at Bright Wall/Dark Room, and the writer/creator of the very fun podcast Crime City! He lives in Peterborough, Ontario and on the internet at @AndrewJRoot.
Crimson Peak: The Art of Darkness offers delicious insights into the making of the film, and more than a few glimpses of how director Guillermo del Toro invests himself in every note of it. Read More
In 2017, an attempt to write exhaustively on Citizen Kane is a futile affair. Read More
The Fisher King is a wonderful blending of the realistic and the fantastic, a reminder that the mythic need not be inaccessible, and that the hero need not slay a dragon. Read More
In the early 1990s, Al Pacino began a project that would span years and continents; a multi-level documentary chronicling his attempt to understand and convey how he felt about Shakespeare’s Richard III. Read More
Arrival purports to have a circular structure itself, through the use of flashbacks and forwards, but subsequent viewings reveal it to be linear by way of a palindrome. Read More
Modern audiences will hear echoes of that folk tale in the high-octane antiheroes of The Fast & the Furious film franchise, a series of films that has mystified some with its longevity. Read More
We lose nothing from a fuller representation of what it means to be human; we gain everything from a more empathetic understanding of our friends. Read More
What I wanted The Hobbit to be, and what that says about me. Read More
We’ve got a wonderful grab bag of cinematic ephemera for you this month. Read More
In this month's issue, we are thrilled to bring together essays that touch on themes of love, loss, self-discovery, intrigue, films, food and finding where you're supposed to be. Read More
Loyalty to the source material is a curious thing. In modern terms, although it’s clambered for and scrutinized mercilessly by... Read More