Welcome to the Film Dramas Blog!

Opening this weekend, the Film Dramas blog features a new writer, and welcomes suggestions from around the globe.

Welcome to the Suite101 Film Dramas blog and topic page! I was just promoted, over the holidays, as the designated feature writer for this section. For the next week or two, I’ll be feeling my way around and getting up to speed with my new responsibilities, and the various bells and whistles at my disposal.

My goal is to create a vibrant discussion area for film drama and quality cinema in general, and I’ll have my hands full since we’re beginning with awards season in full swing, amid a writers strike that’s threatening to cripple Hollywood.

But luckily, this has been a bumper-crop year for excellent movies, like In the Valley of Elah, even if the current hyper-violent trend, in movies like No Country for Old Men or Eastern Promises, seems too easily to equate bloodshed with quality drama. We’ll explore these themes and more as we go along, and I’d love to hear suggestions about anything else you’d like to see on these pages.

Cheers, and once again, welcome!

Randy