Sam Barsanti has written about pop-culture for 10 years, and his work has appeared at The A.V. Club, Primetimer, IGN, and Collider. He has also contributed to the popular daily Hustle newsletter, ...

There is a scene early in Braveheart where a young William Wallace watches his father and brother carried home dead, wrapped in plaid, and you feel the entire film lock into place around that image.

Prior to his 2006 run-in with the cops and subsequent Hollywood fall from grace that saw him blacklisted, Mel Gibson had transitioned, à la Clint Eastwood and Robert Redford before him, from hunky, ...

The 1995 film Braveheart stars Mel Gibson as William Wallace, a Scottish warrior who fights for his country’s independence before facing a grisly death at the hands of English executioners. The movie ...