Steve Jobs, our Thomas Edison, is dead.  But like all masters, from Mozart to Stanley Kubrick, he leaves behind The Great Unfinished Business. For Kubrick, that was A.I., eventually completed (with Kubrick cooperation) by Steven Spielberg, with questionable results.  Every entrant into Chapman Film School is told to be sure to see one movie to [...]

Found Footage movies, or “Hey, we just found this DV tape of mysterious doings!” movies, are a tricky business.  They offer short-term perks such as an instant point-of-view for our characters.  The mark of great director is the ability to put the audience in the mindset of its lead character.  Found Footage movies provide this [...]

It’s Stay On Fountain’s 300th Post, and I thought I’d celebrate it with a look forward.  Where are we all going?  First of all, we’re probably not going to be a country run by the guy above. In what has to be the greatest headline blast in the past five years, David Freddoso of the [...]

“Restless Feeling” by Nick Lowe If you haven’t heard Nick Lowe’s complicated, blustery-in-a-good-way heavy-hearter “The Beast in Me,” then you will be most pleasantly surprised by the man’s newest album “The Old Magic.”  Rare.  Very very rare, is the only word I have for this album.  I almost never listen to a whole album.  I [...]

        DRACULA (1979), Directed by John Badham, Rated R     PREFACE: Before I say anything at all about this movie, be aware that this film comes from the director of SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER. That, coupled with the fact that it was also released in the late 70′s  (deep in the heart [...]

Night 1 I’m already starting this article by cheating because my first night at lounge bar St. Felix was not a night, but a day.  I met with St. Felix’s part-owner Jay Krymis at his new Hollywood location for the maiden voyage of their fabulous lunch menu.  The Hollywood location expands on the original West [...]