Jacob Torpey

Anchorman 2 was released this week, nearly a decade after the original Anchorman was in theaters. The sequel's release seems to have triggered mass nostalgia from our generation. Could it really be that Anchorman was first in theaters 10…

Editor's note: This piece is part of a series on books that changed our lives. Read more here, here, here, and here. Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance was one of the first books that really stuck with me. It was a birthday…

Cormac McCarthy and his recent screenplay for The Counselor may be the latest addition to this list (the film currently holds a 35% rating on Rotten Tomatoes), but there have been well-respected authors before him who have put their screenwriting…

People have been trying to predict the world's end for as long as there's been a world to end. Take George Miller, for instance. His religious sect, The Millerites, were a Baptist movement of Christianity who thought that the Second Advent of Christ…

Dallas Buyers Club is the latest of a series of great movies that have ostensibly changed the public-perception of Matthew McConaughey. McConaughey, who plays Ron Woodroof, a man seeking alternative treatments after a recent HIV diagnosis, has once…

A few years back it was estimated that New York City drew in around 51 million tourists, of which only 10% visited the Bronx. The 10% who managed to get up there divided their time between three areas in particular: The Bronx Zoo, The Botanical…

Horror remains a difficult genre to master. Often, it falls short of our expectations, running from the kitsch to the gratuitous in its dealings with the macabre. But something keeps bringing mainstream audiences back to the genre. In the words of…

New York Comic Con, which began its 2013 event yesterday, is young compared to its West Coast counterpart, San Diego Comic-Con International. It’s only eight years old as opposed to San Diego’s 44, and yet it has managed to approach the popularity…

Remember the montage in Up? It was the part of the film where everybody around you cried and that sad waltz played. Music can define films, burn moments into our heads, and turn average scenes into something special. Here are some classic…