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 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...
Apr 2, 2012 | Forbes
Cersei means business. Slapping business. Game of Thrones has finally arrived, and the first episode, “The North Remembers,” is as smart, funny, brutal, and painful as anything in season 1. Of course, this is no surprise to the readers of the second book in George...