The Island Articles

Filmmakers have oftentimes recycled scenes from other movies. For instance,Leo McCarey's [not Sam Wood's] 1952 anti-communist drama My Son John used bits from Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train made the year before. Robert Walker, one of the stars in both movies, had died before filming on My Son John had been completed. Now, it sure looks like in Transformers: Dark of the Moon Michael [...]

Author Peter Benchley, whose 1970s novel Jaws became a literary sensation, has died at his home in Princeton, New Jersey. Benchley, who was 65, had been suffering from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a progressive and ultimately fatal scarring of the lungs. In 1975, Jaws – the tale of a white shark with an insatiable appetite — went on to become one of the biggest box-office blockbusters [...]