Can Michael Gandolfini Embody The Sopranos’ New Devil?
James Gandolfini’s crime boss Tony Soprano endeared himself to millions of ostensibly law-abiding Americans. Can Michael Gandolfini fill his blood-stained shoes?
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‘The Sopranos’: Mythologizing the Gangster Genre
From The Public Enemy through to Scorsese, the Sopranos family knows how to pick a bad example to follow.
What Carmela Soprano Can Teach About Dealing With the Establishment
Carmela Soprano's compromises highlight the choices we must make to survive a stacked system.
Last Call at Folk City with Dominic Chianese
As the MC at New York's leading folk music venue, Chianese introduced many of the era's best-known and most influential figures.
Beyond Don as Dorian: Fin de Siècle, ‘Mad Men’, and Aesthetics
Given the parallels between Dorian Gray and Don Draper, can we use the lesson of the former to predict the fate of the latter?
“This Is a Cautionary Tale”: An Interview With Dan Gilroy of ‘Nightcrawler’
PopMatters speaks with Nightcrawler writer/director and Academy Award nominee Dan Gilroy about writing antiheroes, watching local television news, and questioning the pervasiveness of fear mongering media.
In Defense of a Second Season for ‘Halt and Catch Fire’
Women are the alpha-characters in Halt and Catch Fire. There may be no better dynamic duo of smart leading females on TV today than Donna and Cameron.