Ryan Heffernan is a Senior Writer at Collider. Storytelling has been one of his interests since an early age, with his appreciation for film and television becoming a particular interest of his during ...

The inherent violence of captured images has been exhaustively analyzed over the past century, from Barthes to Sontag, and yet the terrain of critical theory rarely crosses over into cinematic praxis.

Overview of the Desert campaigns of the Second World War using historical footage taken during the battles.

With Joshua Erkman’s eerie horror/thriller, A Desert, which centers around a photographer lost in a Southwestern desert while on an expedition to photograph its abandoned movie theaters, in theaters ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...