Received wisdom tells us sequels are never as good as the original films. From The Phantom Menace to Shrek Forever After, countless rehashes that failed to capture their predecessor’s magic litter the Hollywood landscape. But someone forgot to send Pixar the memo: Toy Story 3 is not only the strongest […]

The gangster genre has been popular since it first appeared in the early 20th-century. While there were a few in the silent era, the genre really took off with the invention of sound. Screeching car tires, gunshots, and the unique language of the New York and Chicago gangsters contributed greatly […]

Johnny Depp and Winona Ryder star in the 1990 sci-fi romantic comedy Edward Scissorhands in which an eccentric inventor (Vincent Price) creates a “son” using high-tech robotics with a sugar cookie heart. Eventually the young man’s hands – made of a variety of shears and scissors – are supposed to […]

Johnny Depp has been making movies for more than twenty years. Depp seems to relish losing himself in roles, donning teeth and wigs in an attempt to create a new person, not just a new character. Several of his roles are truly unforgettable characters, as evidenced by this list of […]

The Native Story – Roman soldiers on horses tear into the sleepy town of Bethlehem. They smash down doors, grab any child under two and execute them without mercy. The parents are left crying into the darkness as their children lie motionless in the street. And so starts The Nativity […]

At first thought, it may not be evident just how influential jazz has been in the history of rock n’ roll. But digging a little deeper into the roots of the deliciously raucous art form that brought the brass instruments into the forefront of American music shows exactly why the […]