Entertainment
Tom Hanks helped mythologize a whole generation in the boomer blockbuster Forrest Gump – The A.V. Club
Has there ever been a film quite as generationally self-aware as Forrest Gump? It takes decades of American history and presents them as a greatest-hits slideshow.
The Popcorn Champs
The Popcorn Champs looks back at the highest grossing movie in America from every year since 1960. In tracing the evolution of blockbuster cinema, maybe we can answer a question Hollywood has been asking itself for more than a century: What do people want to see?
When my wife was a teenager, she had to wear a name tag that read Gump. At her place of work, everyone did. She was a clerk at Blockbuster Video. Forrest Gump came to home video in April of 1995, 10 months after the…
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