Marc Mohan

A creative writing teacher I once had about a thousand years ago taught me that you shouldn’t let the content of your work dictate the form. That is, writing about boring people doesn’t excuse boring writing. I think this concept has a name, but like I said, it was about a thousand years ago. I […]

I know it’s a perversion of the English language to say so, but it’s hard not to think of Colossal as a “very unique” movie. (In fact, Microsoft Word is telling me right now to “consider using concise language.”) It’s a romantic comedy about a woman, Gloria (Anne Hathaway), who flees from New York City […]

Everybody loves a misanthrope, right? Well, maybe not everybody, but there’s a long American tradition of giving it up for the curmudgeons and the cranks, especially when they can make us laugh. Mark Twain, H.L. Mencken, George Carlin—they cut through the bullshit, they say what we’re all thinking, and don’t abide fools. The latest crotchety […]

I don’t think I’m unique in having an opinion about the acting talents of Kristen Stewart that has fluctuated over the years. My personal K-Stewmometer, though, has tended toward extreme readings more than most, I’d wager. When the star first shot to prominence, shoved in front of a gawking America via the Twilight phenomenon, Stewart […]