10 Fantastic Movie Scenes That Were More Real Than You Knew

When watching a scripted television show or movie, the assumption is that all was planned and everything was acting. But this isn’t always the case. Sometimes, what you see on the screen is far more real than you know....  read more

The Pacific Review: "Part 5" (1.05)

An old friend, a Vietnam vet, once told me that while he was watching the combat scenes in Apocalypse Now he shoved some high schoolers down off their theater seats and shouted “Take cover! Take cover!” One of the sweetest guys you’d ever meet was susceptible to sporadic flashbacks. The metal plate in his head didn’t help. But it reminds me of a running theme in The Pacific, one that war hero Basilone reiterates to a busboy asking for battle advice before enlisting. “Keep your head down and keep moving,” he says, a fitting statement for Part 5, with its...  read more