The James Bond movie franchise had its 50th anniversary recently. Despite many themes of death in their titles, say, ‘You Only Live Twice’, ‘Live & Let Die’, ‘A View To A Kill’, ‘The Living Daylights’, License To Kill’, ‘Tomorrow...

Ted in ‘How I Met Your Mother’ says to his buddies, ‘Look we’ve all been searching for the five doppelgangers [of ourselves], right? But eventually, over time, we all become our own doppelgangers, you know, these completely different people who just happen to look like...

‘Exit Through The Gift Shop’ is a witty documentary about and by Banksy, that prompts good questions about what makes art art, whether ‘illegal’ art (graffiti) is equated to illegitimate art. The irony of his once frowned upon (by the arty-farty) street art becoming...

In the movie ‘Vacancy’, a couple were urged by circumstances, of their car breaking down in the middle of nowhere one night, to walk some distance to a creepy motel, feeling compelled to risk spending the night there. And as we know of such thriller flicks, they check in a room and...

From ‘The Dark Knight Returns: Part 1′, a news feature says this, ‘[Bruce] Wayne [who is Batman], who sponsored Dent’s [Two-Face the villain] rehabilitation, had this to say just days before Dent’s release: “As a city, we have to give Harvey every chance to...

From the movie ‘The Perks Of Being A Wallflower’: Charlie: Why do nice people choose the wrong people to date? Mr Anderson: … We accept the love we think we deserve Charlie: Can we make them know that they deserve more? Mr Anderson: We can try. While Charlie wonders about...

In the movie ‘Premium Rush’, there is the pseudo-cool idea that changeable (instead of fixed) gears and ‘brakes are death’ for messenger bikers dashing from one place to another on the super-busy streets of New York. This is based on the assumption that ‘The bike...

In the movie ‘The Words’, an old ex-writer, who became estranged from his wife many years ago, after she accidentally lost his manuscript on their semi-tragic love story. Having realised he was wrong to have blamed her, to the extent of causing their breakup, he uttered,...

In the movie ‘Werewolf: The Beast Among Us’, Daniel reads this from a book, ‘But just as the beast lives inside the man by day, the man may live inside the beast by night.’ Kind of true but then again, our bestial nature can reside in us by night, and humanity in...

In ‘To Rome With Love’, a man is featured with a powerful voice, with which he sings in the shower. His talent discovered, he was urged to audition for an opera performance. Outside of the bathroom however, he could not sing as well as usual. His talent scout thus proposes adding...

Gollum in ‘Lord of the Rings’ in pursuit of the One Ring is almost the perfect personification of a hungry ghost. Consumed by greed, his essence of being is nothing but craving, at the expense of everything else, including his life eventually, as he plummets into the lava of Mount...

From the movie ‘Being Flynn’: Jon: I’m doing the same thing here as you are, [spending night in homeless shelter] gathering material [for writing]. Nick: I’m not gathering material. This is my [working] life. [He works there as an administrator.] Jon: Life is gathering...

What’s terrifying about zombies is their relentless mindless hunger – sounds familiar? Think consumers’ herd mentality on Black Friday. There may be more, but here are four recurring dilemmas from observation of zombie flicks. 1. Should you take human-like zombies down,...

‘Remember how much I loved Cinderella? It’s what messes little girls up!’ Says Lola in ‘Lola Versus’, on waiting for her prince to come. Instead of waiting for someone who offers a perfect fit for you, how about becoming ‘more perfect’ to better fit the...

Important cautionary tales should be told, be it in writing or even film, but they might offer evil suggestions too. Which is more worth it? Sharing the possible good or evil effects? It’s a matter of focus – for the storyteller and...

From the movie ‘Moonrise Kingdom’, is this simple tribute, arranged in a poetic form. Sam asks, ‘Why do you always use binoculars?’ Suzy replies, ‘It helps me see things closer, even if they’re not very far away. I pretend that’s magic...

I think Charlie Chaplin’s movie, ’The Great Dictator’ is really just his excuse to deliver what is one of the greatest inspirational speeches in movie history. The film is filled quite evenly with comedy and suddenly, at the end, the comedian turns all serious with his...

Interesting quotes from ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’: Uncle Ben: You’re a lot like your father. You really are, Peter, and that’s a good thing. But your father lived by a philosophy, a principle really. He believed that… that if you could do good things for other...

Interesting dialogues from the movie ‘Verbo’: Sara: Our history teacher told us something. A big mess in the Church a long time ago. He said there was this debate about the digestive process and holy wafer. Stercorism or something like that. One side said the wafer stopped being...

Thoughts while watching the movie ‘Valkyrie’ the second time, this came to mind: Soldiers who do not obey orders are useless. Soldiers who obey all orders are dangerous. - Stonepeace Related Article: The Success of Operation...