R.I.P. Paul Newman 26/01/1925 – 26/08/2008

Screen legend Paul Newman passed away today after a long battle with Cancer. He was truly one of the great screen actors of all time and if you haven’t explored his career you really should – he provided legendary performances in many classsic films and will always be remembered as one of the greats. In fact, I’ll let his performances do the talking, do “Cool Hand Luke”, “The Sting”, “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” and “Towering Inferno” ring any bells? He was also on Richard Nixon’s list of enemies! What more could you want?

Ode to an Awesome Scene: Walken interogates Hopper in “True Romance” (contains spoilers)

Prewarning: This article contains spoilers for the film “True Romance” – watch the film before reading this, as obviously seeing the scene within the context of the entire film is very important. Also this movie uses some fairly strong racist language (much of which is within this scene) but is not, in any way, racist (the context, and reasoning for the language is revealed in this scene analysis if there were any doubts!). If you’ve already seen the movie then great – give the scene a rewatch and lets have a closer look at what makes it so great.