For all the dig­i­tal glit­ter and anachro­nis­tic hip-hop­pery that sig­ni­fies our lat­est re-entry into Luhrman-land, The Great Gats­by itself takes fun­da­men­tal inspi­ra­tion from a black and white clas­sic from 1941. Fea­tur­ing a flash­back fram­ing device, a lone­ly and heart­sick tycoon star­ing out of the win­dow of a grotesque cas­tle, and even a breath­less deathbed “Daisy” […]

Speak­ing as some­one whose taste for adven­ture does­n’t stretch much fur­ther than going to the dairy in the rain, the reck­less self-endan­ger­­ment rep­re­sent­ed by Joachim Røn­ning and Espen Sand­berg’s Kon-Tiki was a gen­uine eye-open­er. The bones of the sto­ry are well-known enough to any­one who built bal­sa mod­els of Hey­er­dahl’s raft at pri­ma­ry school in […]