At 69, Samuel L Jackson is looking good. He’s softly spoken for the most part, with a voice that’s instantly recognizable. He’s also, of course, one of the biggest movie stars on earth. But it’s been a long journey to get to this place – his success was hard-fought, coming later in his career than…
Sometimes there’s a man… I won’t say a hero, ’cause, what’s a hero? But sometimes, there’s a man. The Big Lebowski turns 20 years old on March 6, and the Coen Brothers comedy take on the great Los Angeles noir films of the past is rightly considered a classic. It’s even a true cult classic with…
In 1983, Seiko debuted the 7A28 as the world’s first analog quartz chronograph watch. But it became best known as the watch that was worn by Sigourney Weaver’s Ellen Ripley in the film Aliens. Featuring a chunky panel sticking out on one side with two big chronograph buttons, it has that quasi-military futuristic look that director…
More commonly referred to as the Jaws watch. Over the years this one has built up a bit of a following and been the cause of a lot of “what’s that watch?” conversations, after being worn by Richard Dreyfuss’ character Matt Hooper in the classic 1975 film. Unavailable for decades, the Alsta watch company was resurrected in…
A recent a trailer was released for an American film called Beirut – and lots of people online were angered. “It’s not even filmed in Beirut!”, “It shows Beirut in a bad light”, “The actors were not Lebanese” and so on. It’s a familiar complaint. The plot of the film follows a U.S. diplomat (Jon…
Today marks the 30th anniversary of the release of Oliver Stone’s film Wall Street. But three decades on, we need to see the film as it was intended and not as something aspirational. The film was intended to be a cautionary tale on the dangers of unchecked ambition and greed. Instead, it became a siren call to…
They didn’t make too many of these when it was first launched in 1983, but a year later it gained worldwide fame as the watch that the Ghostbusters wore. In the film it was used to pick up “Electronic Voice Phenomena” but in reality its key feature was the ability to record messages of eight…
Chuck Palahniuk’s sequel to his 1996 classic is out this month in the form of a graphic novel. The Fight Club 2 miniseries, featuring artwork by Cameron Stewart, is set 10 years after Project Mayhem, the point where the original book, and also the film, ended. “The protagonist”, as he is always referred to in…
It’s not just music videos and clips of cats being awesome, YouTube is also home to some great documentaries well worth watching. Here are 21 of them. 25 Million Pounds (1996) Film by the brilliant Adam Curtis about Nick Leeson and the collapse of Barings Bank and how Barings “willingly entered into a dream he…
On June 25th 2013, during the regular Kevin Smith podcast (SModcast #259) he and co-host Scott Mosier were laughing about an post they’d just seen on GumTree.com — a British classified ad website. There was a listing from a man who claimed he’d spent three years alone on St Lawrence Island with only a walrus…
Matt Pomroy 