Braveheart

Newt Gingrich Sees Himself As Washington's 'Braveheart'

Posted 11.21.2011

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...

HuffPost Review: Ironclad

Marshall Fine | Posted 09.05.2011

Marshall Fine

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...

Britain's Union Jack Losing Its Color

Alan Black | Posted 07.06.2011

Alan Black

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...

True Grit and the Truth about Revenge

Thane Rosenbaum | Posted 05.25.2011

Thane Rosenbaum

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.

What We Can Learn From This Summer's Newsworthy Celeb Couples

Jessica Massa | Posted 05.25.2011

Jessica Massa

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 Lying Art Of Historical Fiction

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...

Truthfulness Is the Last Taboo

Sebastian Siegel | Posted 05.25.2011

Sebastian Siegel

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.

Why Our Nobles Betray Us

Cenk Uygur | Posted 05.25.2011

Cenk Uygur

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.

Apocalypto: Mel Gibson's Insane Triumph, a Triumphant Action Epic Shot Entirely in Mayan

Alex Remington | Posted 05.25.2011

Alex Remington

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.

Astoria Characters: The Answer Man

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 05.25.2011

Nancy Ruhling

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."

The Stoning Of Soraya M

Mark Joseph | Posted 05.25.2011

Mark Joseph

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.

Introducing BraveHeartView.com: Change the Channel to Find Inspiration in Only 10 Minutes!

Ellie Drake | Posted 05.25.2011

Ellie Drake

Think of it as conscious television on the Internet: empowered programming designed to energize, entertain, educate, and inspire you.