Q: What does Hollywood do to good writers? A: Bribes them to ignore their better story-telling senses. How else can I explain what has become of Stuart Beattie, whose script for COLLATERAL is one of my favorites? Since then, he has written the titularly-prescient DERAILED, GI JOE: THE RISE OF COBRA and now, I, FRANKENSTEIN, which he has directed, as well. With COLLATERAL, Beattie used a genre film to explore meaningful thematic content with emotionally complex characters, eve

CAPTURING THE FRIEDMANS won awards for its filmmaker, Andrew Jarecki, and helped generate interest in the case against the eponymous father and son who had been convicted as sex offenders. In 2003, I interviewed Jarecki and concluded by asking if he believed the Friedmans were guilty. Jarecki, the founder of Moviefone , responded: “The most honest thing I can say is that after all the misinformation I got while making the film, I learned not to give opinions about things when