From The Hollywood Reporter: a look at some new movies that feature dynamic lawyers as role models for the profession, and the actors who play them. In the spotlight: Alan Alda, Ray Liotta, and...
David Barnett notes that we are now living in the month and year of Blade Runner‘s fictional “now,” and asks how much of it is real. In an article for BBC Culture, he writes in...
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Paul Salmon, a professor at the University of the Sunshine Coast, discusses the image of robots at work in the Star Wars universe and the extent to which those images reflect the actual uses...
Harvard Law Professor Jack Goldsmith discusses Martin Scorsese’s new film The Irishman and the unsolved disappearance of union leader James (Jimmy) Hoffa here for the New York Review of Books. Professor Goldsmith writes in part,...
From The Hollywood Reporter, an interview with Aaron Paul and Vince Gilligan about the new “Breaking Bad” movie.
The National Jurist rounds up 10 Inspiring Movies that suggest the kinds of legal careers law students can follow to do good in the world. These films include When They See Us, RBG, and Saint Judy.
Lena Wilson examines home invasion movies in I Know Where You Lived Last Summer in this article for The New York Times. She says in part, The writer-director Jordan Peele’s latest nightmare is part...
From the Writing Excuses podcast, a discussion of what writers get wrong when they write about legal procedures. Lou Perry, an attorney and writer, is the guest. As a followup, Molly Ringle published this...
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Another law and pop culture post from David Kluft at Foley & Hoag, this time on Frankenstein and Copyright. Great information about Mary Shelley’s sale of the copyright of the novel for only thirty...
For the BBC, Nicholas Barber discusses the meanings that we might miss in the classic film “The Wizard of Oz,” released in 1939. Those meanings include the dangers of following a popular but incompetent...
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