Jack Hawkins
Expertise
Noir, New Hollywood, Transgressive Cinema
- Jack covers press screenings and events including Sundance and the BFI London Film Festival.
- For HeyUGuys, a leading UK film site, Jack recognizes transgressive talent with his tongue-in-cheek "Most Obscene Misuse of a Household Item of the Year" award.
- Before writing a feature on Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jack visited the actor's family home in Austria and flexed for a photo taken by Peter Urdl, Arnold's childhood friend.
Experience
Jack joined Static Media in 2021 and has written for Looper, Grunge, Tasting Table, and SlashGear. He writes on the road and is always in search of art house cinemas during his travels, including Vienna's Burg Kino, where he caught a screening of "The Third Man" (and still didn't care for it.) Outside of /Film, you can find collections of Jack's writing at Rotten Tomatoes and Authory.
Education
Jack has a bachelor's degree in English and a master's degree in military history.
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Stories By Jack Hawkins
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Arnold Schwarzenegger's muscles may have made him famous, but it was performances in films like these that made him a real star.
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Science fiction cinema is full of bold predictions about our future. Still, it's probably a good thing that these sci-fi classics missed the mark.
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Morally ambiguous characters with complex story arcs made "The Sopranos" one of the greatest TV dramas of all time. Let's ran the best of them.
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The cyberpunk subgenre combines advanced technology, innovations in A.I., and vast metropolitan environments. Here are the 22 greatest cyberpunk movies, ranked.