Stephen has had articles, interviews and reviews published by Boxoffice Magazine, TheRaider.Net and Uptown. Here are examples from 2006 and 2007.
Simon Wincer, the Australian director responsible for decades worth of adventures and westerns such as Lonesome Dove, The Lighthorsemen, The Phantom and some of the best of the Young Indiana Jones series, seems slightly out of ... read more »
As a huge fan of great adventure stories and old Hollywood, I had been enamored for some time with a movie Louis L'Amour's son made called, The Diamond of Jeru. I didn't know a great deal about Louis L'Amour. I knew he was one of several ... read more »
BP Schulberg did everything possible to elevate the artistic power of film to the level of theatre and literature. It was due to some embarrassment about working in films, and having a good deal of admiration for novel writers, that he adapted some ... read more »
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End are not really about pirates at all.
Pirates existed of course, and still do, but there were never really squid-faced men or hammerhead shark-faced men. Skeletons are not sword-fighters in real life. This is the stuff of movies. And movies, particularly Hollywood movies, are what ... read more »
"I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy." - Harrison Ford
As all the world knows by now, Harrison Ford is set to finally return to the role of Indiana Jones. Mostly, this news has been met with excitement. But, not an insignificant number have wondered if, after all these years, the sixty-something ... read more »
A beautiful woman tied to train tracks. A speeding locomotive snakes through the mountains. The woman screams. A hero races to her. But will he reach her in time?
Thanks to the cutting together of images like these, mixed with the melodramatic banging of a piano's keys, stage writers and novelists suddenly had a hard time competing with movies. Broadway could boast about gifted choreographers and the ... read more »
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