The day they came, that was the real surprise. To hear it was louder than the popping of birthday balloons. To see it was more horrifying than candles falling into melting frosting. To taste it was worse that eating dirt because you would be if it hit between yours and your next door neighbors’ house. Newly eight, […]
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It’s hard not to fall in love with Benedict Cumberbatch these days, especially when he plays the gay card. In his newest film, The Imitation Game, Cumberbatch brings to life Alan Turing, the famous English computer scientist and mathematician who helped the Allied forces break the Nazis’ “Enigma” code during World War II. Despite his wartime triumphs, Turing’s […]
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This is admittedly an older video (try 30+ years), but it still packs an emotional wallop. Like, really emotional. Like, prepare-to-cry-for-hours emotional. Basically, in the 1940s, a man named Sir Nicholas Winston successfully smuggled to safety 669 Jewish-Czechoslovakian children who were destined for the Nazi death camps. Fast forward 40 years: The very same Sir […]
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The Imitation Game is the latest biopic to hit the theaters. Directed by Morten Tyldum and based off of Andrew Hodges’ novel, Alan Turing: The Enigma, the film explores the life of the English mathematician Alan Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch) and his attempts to break Nazi Germany’s Enigma code during World War II. The film follows pivotal times […]
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