Last week John Hughes passed away at the age of 59 from a heart attack.
John Hughes. Writer / Director of The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Sixteen Candles, etc.
John Hughes, who helped me survive high school by sharing his outlook and his humor through his films.
John Hughes who has influenced literally everything I’ve done [...]

Well, the new website is up. We’re excited to have the site live and to represent Easy Water Films on the web.
We’ve also got our page on Facebook where we’re publishing exclusive Production Diary Videos for our newest film project Limitations of Clarity.
We’re also working on a few new surprises and will [...]

My apologies for the lack of posts recently. Just so you know Easy Water Films has not been as quiet or as slow as it appears. We’re working on launching a redesigned website filled with more information and interactive features. We’re hard at work writing scripts, preparing a few short films, and [...]

The other day I was browsing my favorite local second-hand DVD store and happened upon a Blu-Ray copy of Baraka.
This was significant for two reasons.

The Dark Knight is an excellent film.  Christopher Nolan has essentially made a modern Godfather or Heat staring Batman and the Joker.  It is an intelligent film that doesn’t feel the need to spoon feed information to the audience.  It deals with complex issues:  Duality, justice, morality, terror.  All while being confident that the audience [...]

 
I’ve been chewing on this one for a while.  Recently IGN reported that Warner Bros. has decided not to make a sequel to Bryan Singer’s Superman Returns, instead opting for a reboot of the series to make a “darker and more edgy” Superman film.  This decision was reportedly based on the disappointing performance of Superman Returns [...]

I’m going to go out on a limb with this post and make a prediction.  Now in all fairness I must say that my clairvoyance skills have not exactly batted a thousand in the past, but this is a theory I’ve been working on for a while, and I’m reasonably sure that A) I’m right or B) [...]

The world is buzzing with Wall-E chatter.  Wall-E is one of the best reviewed film in recent memory.  Everyone seems to unanimously agree that this film is terrific and something special.  So I hesitated to add to the noise by writing about Pixar’s new film, but I simply couldn’t help myself.  Perhaps these thoughts on [...]

The films of Francis Ford Coppola encapsulate what I love the most about cinema: That a large group of people who come from different backgrounds and have different sensibilities can come together and create something coherent. I find this a marvel in the world. The fact that writers, producers, director, DPs, ADs, costuming, make up, [...]