Apr 9, 2012 | Forbes
Balon Greyjoy, maker of daddy issues. Game of Thrones spent its first season traumatizing us with its predilection for violence, and from the last week’s episode, we can tell season 2 would be equally scarring. But episode 2.02 was shocking for a different reason:...
Apr 6, 2012 | Forbes
Game of Thrones fans who were glued to HBO for its season 2 premiere were greeted with new developments on old characters and intrigues. We also saw that our familiar, sweeping intro—for which film company Elastic won the Creative Arts Emmy Award in 2011—had some...
Apr 5, 2012 | Forbes
The Hunger Games, District 12 Want to own your own a piece of film history? Wade Shepard, 83, doesn’t. He owns Henry River Mill Village, the land that served as a stand-in for The Hunger Games’ District 12, and he has “too many visitors.” So he’s selling his 72 acres...
Apr 4, 2012 | Forbes
I’ve been waiting to see The Avengers ever since I heard the words “Joss” and “Whedon.” And in the first clip of the movie, below, you can see why: The famed director is great to his female characters; he makes them real and interesting and tough. Black Widow, played...
Apr 4, 2012 | Forbes
Of all the Republican candidates for president, Rick Santorum is the only one who makes me want to fling a copy of Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique at his head. Although he’s the darling of conservative women, his views on women’s equality, below, are about...
Apr 3, 2012 | Forbes
If you’ve spent most of your life as I have, listening to Yoda’s words of wisdom while playing with Star Wars action figures, the idea of proper English coming from Yoda’s puppet lips would cause some serious cognitive dissonance. Still, that hasn’t stopped Vimeo-er...
