Movies

“Never forget what you are. The rest of the world will not. Wear it like armor, and it can never be used to hurt you.” Tyrion Lannister’s quote applies not only to dwarves and bastards,…

Movies, like other art forms, are grounded in real life. Characters and settings, and even entire plots can be inspired by real-world events. Movies are frequently released with tag lines like “based on a true…

On Saturday at Tanglewood, there was a big to-do celebrating John Williams 80th birthday (which actually happened on Feb. 8). A milestone for anybody, but for a national icon like Williams, it provided a unique…

httpv://youtu.be/gPVzv6m1u-o Perhaps I’m the only one who has experienced this, but when I saw the trailer for Looper the first time, I thought “wow, that guy looks a lot like Joseph Gordon-Levitt.” Then I thought,…

At this point, sad as it is, you come to expect tragedy from Hollywood. It’s a tough town, and produces more early deaths than it should. But the passing of Tony Scott is exceptionally haunting. The director…

It was a knock on the door, same as any other knock. Nothing indicated that opening the door would be any different this time than the thousands of times I’d done it before. It was…

If you’ve never seen Michael Carleone in Walter White, look harder. Sure, one is a mafia don in 1950’s New Yorkand the other is a methamphetamine distributor in current day New Mexico, but they are,…

You should recognize this art style by now. It’s from Denis Medri, the man responsible for both Steampunk Spider-Man and Grease Batman. Now he’s back with a new franchise and genre. That’s right, it’s ’80s…