Newt Gingrich Sees Himself As Washington's 'Braveheart'
Newt Gingrich's rising poll numbers have prompted him to take another trip down movie memory lane. Back in October, Gingrich served up his first he...
Newt Gingrich's rising poll numbers have prompted him to take another trip down movie memory lane. Back in October, Gingrich served up his first he...
Marshall Fine | Posted 09.05.2011
When it comes to stories that bear transposition to varying eras and settings, Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai (1954) seems a prime example of a plot t...
Alan Black | Posted 07.06.2011
The bursting colors of the British flag, the Union Jack, were on full parade last week at the cinematic Royal Wedding. Britain seemed like one big hap...
Thane Rosenbaum | Posted 05.25.2011
The cultural moment where True Grit finds itself as one of America's most popular films is neither surprising nor necessarily of its own making.
Jessica Massa | Posted 05.25.2011
Summer is a time for fun, flirting and romance. And according to the tabloids and celebrity blogs that many of us guiltily read, it's also a time for ...
The Guardian | Posted 05.25.2011
Judging historical fiction is not as simple as 'accurate equals good' and 'inaccurate equals bad'. It depends on whether the inaccuracies are construc...
Sebastian Siegel | Posted 05.25.2011
Truthfulness Is The Last Taboo: A short poem I texted to myself in the checkout line at Whole Foods, for another me in some other way -- here, now, or before and beyond time.
Cenk Uygur | Posted 05.25.2011
It's profoundly naive to expect politicians and mainstream media to fix things. Why is a television anchor making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year going to look to change the system? He loves the system. The system pays the bills.
Alex Remington | Posted 05.25.2011
Apocalypto is, if anything, a cross between Braveheart and The Passion, an uncompromisingly brutal movie shot entirely in a foreign language about one man who takes on an evil empire and wins.
Nancy Ruhling | Posted 05.25.2011
Welcome to the wacky world of George Halvatzis, Astoria's resident and residential therapist, aka The Answer Man. "In every real estate transaction, I'm doing therapy."
Mark Joseph | Posted 05.25.2011
Steve McEveety is a Hollywood oddity: He's humble. I know. Weird. He identified himself as "a producer of The Passion of The Christ." But he wasn't a producer, but rather the producer.
Ellie Drake | Posted 05.25.2011
Think of it as conscious television on the Internet: empowered programming designed to energize, entertain, educate, and inspire you.
Posted 11.21.2011