"The very last thing that Gladiator was about was actual Roman history. Finding all her protests about inaccuracy ignored, historical adviser Kathleen Coleman, Professor of Latin at Harvard University, asked for her name to be removed from the credits. Firstly, Gladiator was about Hollywood and secondly, it was about contemporary America. It ( Read more... )

Pretty good ones.

Your result for Test yourself: What alignment are you?...

True Neutral

You are The Druid; True Neutral.


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"When I first viewed my own movie, Thelma and Louise, with an audience and the shooting occurred, the audience cheered and I was stunned because I had expected a completely different reaction. I had hoped for a stunned reaction from the audience of realization that this character had just sealed her fate in a very horrible way. But, instead, they ( Read more... )

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"There it is," Hammond announces, as the island comes into view. The helicopter is shown approaching a valley enclosed by two slopes that seem like two legs. The shot showing the helicopter flying through the uterine passage adds to the feeling that we are entering a feminine world. This is reinforced by the revelation that there are only female ( Read more... )

In The Thin Man when Nora Charles (Myrna Loy) enters the nightclub where her husband Nick (William Powell) has been drinking all evening, she asks him how many martinis he's had. He tells her six, and, since she already has one in her hand, she orders five more. In all things she pushes for balance. Verbally, the two spend most of the film trading ( Read more... )

I loved the action and technology in Iron Man, but I wasn't sure about the political stuff, e.g. race and sex. This review, while I think misses some points, does a good job in pointing stuff out. I wonder if that was good grammar. Weird ( Read more... )

"Space aliens may have my penis when they pry it from my cold, dead hands."

'But -- and I feel that amidst all the adulation that has surrounded the film it is owed to Tolkien to point such matters out -- the exorcism of "Theoden King," one of the dramatic events in the "Golden Hall" in the court of Edoras, capital of Rohan, misses Tolkien's point. In the film we are presented, essentially, with a contest of wizardry ( Read more... )