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William Monahan On Adapting J.R. Maguire’s Memoir “The Tender Bar”

William Monahan On Adapting J.R. Maguire’s Memoir “The Tender Bar”

The Tender Bar is based on J.R. Moehringer’s touching, best-selling memoir about a boy yearning for surrogate fatherly guidance in Manhasset, Long Island. Oscar Winner William Monahan (The Departed, The Gambler) tells the coming of age tale of J.R. Maguire (Tye Sheridan). J.R. didn’t come from privilege or connections, but he did the fundamentally impossible and become […]

 Jeff York

5 Reasons the Animated Batman Still Bests the Live-Action Versions

5 Reasons the Animated Batman Still Bests the Live-Action Versions

Batman: Hush, the new animated Batman movie that hit VOD last Tuesday, is flawed and missing a lot of the narrative that made Jeff Loeb and Jim Lee’s graphic novel so exquisite. Still, even with a truncated running time of only one hour and twenty-one minutes, and an ending different from the comics, it still […]