EMPIRE COMMENT
LETTER OF THE MONTH
THAT’S GOLD, JERRY!
Your ‘top ten films of 1995 feature’ [‘The Ranking’, issue #443] and Jerry from Die Hard With A Vengeance got me thinking about how movies are such a great way of learning facts. Indeed, it was Jerry who taught me who the 21st US President was. I also know it was John Lennon who said, “If I’d lived in Roman times, I’d have lived in Rome,” thanks to Nicolas Cage in The Family Man. What is the most interesting thing you’ve learned from a movie?
MATT TUCK, SOUTHAMPTON
We learned from Ghostbusters never to cross the streams. Intel that comes in especially useful in a men’s urinal. To facilitate your incurable cinematic curiosity, Matt, have a Picturehouse membership. And if any other readers want to share fun facts they learned from the movies, let us know...