Category: Movies

In 2015. Han, Leia, and Luke all came back. The box office boomed. Two of those beloved characters were killed off and one of them passed away in real life. Fans and critics raved and complained. And of course, original Star Wars memorabilia got more expensive than ever. A mint Luke Skywalker action figure sold for $20k on eBay. Leia’s “slave dress” from ROTJ sold for $80k. That’s chump change considering a miniature from the original film went for $375k. Then the dust settled after the final trilogy came to an end. At that time there was one genre of ... Read more

Here’s an awesome-for-obvious-reasons screen grab from the upcoming flick The Judge. Robert Downey Jr. stars as a big-city hot-shot lawyer (is there any other kind?)  who returns to the small town where he grew up. He’s unhappily reunited with his estranged family after the passing of his mother. With dramatic elements already at full tilt, he then finds out his father, the town’s judge, has been accused of murder. Damaged Justice indeed. Even in what looks to be a tear-jerker Downey still manages to slip into some heavy metal attire (thanks to costume designer Marlene Stewart.) My gut tells me ... Read more

The Story Behind the “This is Not a Fugazi T-Shirt”, Tee Fugazi never made their own tees. But this opened up a huge opportunity for bootleggers and Ian MacKaye admittedly spent a ton of time tracking them down. He discussed it in an interview for The Art of the Band T-Shirt and detailed how there is one exception to his anti-Fugazi t-shirt policy. “I managed to trace one design back to a fairly well-known t-shirt company in the Boston area, and I called to tell them to cut it out. I spoke to the main guy there, and, of course, ... Read more

1. Return of the Jedi Star Wars: Episode VII. The new hope is that they go back to giving them regular movie titles. Lucas is out. J.J. Abrams is in. Abrams does good work, but let’s hope the J.J. doesn’t stand for Jar Jar. available at: blackmarket 2. Ghost Busters 2 Aykroyd wrote the first draft of the third installment in the early 1990s. Fast forward 20 years and progress has been made but Bill Murray has opted out. He’s officially dead to the Ghostbusters and even refused a cameo as a ghost. Rick Moranis recently said about possible involvement, ... Read more

In, A Place Beyond the Pines, Ryan Gosling sports a sleeve-trimmed Metallica Ride The Lightning shirt. The shirt even has subtle story significance with the quote, “If you ride like lightning, you’re gonna crash like thunder” spoken to Gosling’s character by his partner in crime. See it. The film is awesome and the tee is just a little extra eye candy in an otherwise beautifully shot epic. But is the shirt vintage? And is it even a t-shirt? In some scenes, it looks as though it could be a sweatshirt. Whatever the case may be we can rule out it ... Read more