If you ask anyone who was around, 1998 was the year ofSaving Private Ryan.And yet,Shakespeare in Lovetook home the Oscar for Best Picture, a movie that has its good qualities for sure, but the former has left more of an impression over the years. 1999 – Winner:American Beauty No Cont...
Peter Sellers' earned an Oscar nomination for his comic take on alien hand syndrome in 1965's Dr. Strangelove Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images There have only been roughly four dozen reported cases of alien hand syndrome. It's surprising then, that the literary world and Hollywood have...
as Steven Soderbergh once noted, if you could “we’d all be Stanley Kubrick.” Yet you can teach the craft necessary for artists to express themselves, and in the case of many of the books that follow, you can provide the inspiration necessary to unlock an artist’s best and most excit...
It was also the last film to win the Oscar for both Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor, until nearly 44 years later when Mystic River achieved the same feat.The movie revolves around a Jewish prince who is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend and how he regains his ...
If you're a true Swiftie, you might go wild about this news because I knew the artist off the bat just seeing his name. Justin Vernon (lead singer of the band Bon Iver) was born and raised in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. The origin of the band was also in Eau Claire. ...
Even the masters are students, always learning, always iterating, often collaborating. Bass of course had strong ideas about what form his projects ought to take, but it was not his way or the highway. Look no further thanStanley Kubrick’s feedback on potential posters forThe Shining. The...
5. If Princeton, they'll just say you were always kind of light in the Cole Haans, too, and were once even seen dancing at an "alternative lifestyle" bar in the city--dressed in full leather biker garb--so what can you expect?
the closest parallel I can draw is the sleepless effects that Stanley Kubrick’sThe Shininghad on me as a little kid watching it for the first time. In no way am I saying that Avati’s film is on par with hat Kubrick masterpiece; there’s merely an inexplicably common force between th...
After the satisfying completion of that trilogy, this film’s tagline makes it feel like an afterthought tacked on for reasons less creative than commercial: “There was never just one,” reads the tagline. But if this is what constitutes a legitimate spinoff from the previous “Bourne” insta...
an hour’s drive from Amarillo. Palo Duro Canyon is not as impressive as the Grand Canyon but it is pretty cool and worth a stop. Take plenty of water if you visit in the warmer months. I already mentioned Zion National Park, but Antelope Canyon, which is nearby, is beautiful (Google...