Posts by Tom Carson

October 14, 2014
The Movies of 1994: ‘Pulp Fiction’ and the Making of Quentin Tarantino

Premiering 20 years ago this month, ‘Pulp Fiction’ was the movie that turned Quentin Tarantino into, you know, Quentin Tarantino.
August 28, 2014
What About the Movies? Accounting for the Cinema of ‘SNL’

Since eliciting compassion for dunces and kooks wasn’t the point of the original sketches, the big-screen versions’ hallmark is how often they have to invert their parent skit’s snarky premise to make sense at feature length.
August 22, 2014
Mr. Mike’s ‘SNL’ Nightmare

Meet Michael O’Donoghue: The angriest, craziest man to ever hate — but never really leave — ‘Saturday Night Live.’
October 1, 2013
Reconsidering Ron Howard: Is He Actually a Good Director?

It starts with how we still haven’t cured ourselves of calling him Opie. At age 59, Ron Howard has directed 30 or so feature films. Some of them — Splash, Apollo 13 — have earned permanent shelf lives in the great American public’s esteem. He has won enough awards to teach an octopus to juggle. […]
August 6, 2013
Ten Years Gone

Celebrating the importance of The O.C.