“Taken”: Masculinity, Memes, and Liam Neeson
Last night I watched Taken in order to find out what all the fuss was about, since this hit film has spawned …
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Shusaku Endo’s “Silence” on Page and Screen
In Martin Scorsese’s film adaptation of Silence, the 1966 novel by Shusaku Endo, we first see a black screen and …
Getty Images Roundup: Ciarán Hinds
Getty Images has done a great thing for us bloggers by allowing many of their photos to be legally embedded in our posts. …
Peter, Augustus, Alonzo or James
According to T. S. Eliot, the naming of cats is a difficult matter. So is naming the protagonists of one’s fiction–especially one’s romantic …
Michael Collins (1996)
To state the obvious, this is a Hollywood Treatment, even though it was produced in Ireland. While watching this film, …
