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Ron Howard's 2015 movie In the Heart of the Sea depicts the final voyage of the Essex whaleship and the horrifying events that occurred after the ship sank. In the Heart of the Sea boasts an impressive cast led by Chris Hemsworth, Benjamin Walker, Tom Holland, and Cillian Murphy, who each portray real people who sailed on the Essex. The movie details the events leading to the ship's sinking, including it being attacked by a whale, along with the drastic measures that the men had to take to stay alive.

Despite its gripping subject matter and great cast, the movie was unsuccessful when it was first released. While In the Heart of the Sea's ending does provide some context for what happened after the Essex sank and the survivors were rescued, their stories continued long after that point. Only eight of the Essex's crew survived out of the 20 who...

Released during a bleak era, The Parallax View taps into widespread paranoia and distrust of government institutions. The film's protagonist, played by Warren Beatty, finds himself immersed in a vast conspiracy beyond his understanding. The dark and fatalistic ending of The Parallax View reflects the film's commitment to maintaining a bleak vision with merciless honesty.

Released in 1974, The Parallax View became the most despairing film in a rather despairing decade. One of the most frightening aspects of the film, in which Warren Beatty stars as a reporter whose initial investigation into a senators assassination leads to a vast conspiracy, is how believable the film seems relative to its distinctly gloomy era.

Released nearly six years after the Robert F. Kennedy assassination and less than two months before Richard Nixon became the first United States president to resign from office, The Parallax View arrived amid a deeply cynical, depressed public mood,...

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By Todd Garbarini

The late Loren Adelson Singer, who passed away in 2009, has published several novels as an author, among them That’s the House, There (1973), Boca Grande (1974), and Making Good (1993). His first work, 1970’s The Parallax View, published by Doubleday, was written as an answer to his disdain for the printing business he worked at with his father-in-law and proved to be enough of a success to permit him to become a paid author. The inspiration for the book came from the covert operations he assisted in while training with the Office of Strategic Services and was penned following the high-profile political assassinations of the 1960’s. It also provided the blueprint for the film of the same title directed by the late Alan J. Pakula, the second in his informally named “paranoia trilogy,” bookended by Klute (1971) and All the President’s Men...

Walt Disney, Frank Capra, Whitney Houston, Billie Holiday, Johnny Cash and Alex Trebek are among the entertainment industry figures who have been added as proposed honorees in the National Garden of American Heroes monument project unveiled by President Donald Trump in July.

As he began his final 48 hours as President, Trump issued an amended executive order Monday that added dozens of names slated to be honored in the the planned statuary park. The location for the park has yet to be determined. Trump first announced the plan on July 3 during his speech at Mt. Rushmore.

Among the entertainment-related names making the cut are Louis Armstrong, Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, Irving Berlin, Humphrey Bogart, Kobe Bryant, Frank Capra, Ray Charles, Nat King Cole, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Aretha Franklin, Woody Guthrie, Charlton Heston, Alfred Hitchcock, Bob Hope, Elvis Presley and Jimmy Stewart. The monument will honor those deemed to be “historically...

Hey, "FBI" fans. We are back at you again to serve up some new spoilery scoops for next week's new,upcoming 5th episode of this current season 2. We hope you guys got a kick out of watching tonight's episode 4. It's in the rear view mirror now. So, it's time to look forward, and CBS is helping us do that with a brand new press release for episode 5. It contains a couple of important teaser descriptions. So, we will be sharing those with you guys in this spoiler session. To start things off, we've got an official title for episode 5. It is called, "Crossroads." It's not one of the most original titles we've heard, but it gets the job done. It sounds like episode 5 will feature some very intense, dramatic, action-filled and emotional scenes as a father of gets viciously kidnapped! Jubal has to make a very tough decision regarding his precious family and more!