Tom Carson
Tom Carson is a writer for GQ.
Movies
Spectre Is the Longest Bond Movie Yet, and Maybe the Dreariest
Get ready to spend two and a half hours wishing for the end of the 'gritty reboot' era.
Movies
If You Think Steve Jobs Was the Messiah, You’ll Love Steve Jobs
The Danny Boyle–directed biopic might as well have been titled Aaron Sorkin’s Saviors for Dummies
Movies
Star Wars: The Trilogy That Inspired This Season’s Look
Yeah, yeah, we know the first three Star Wars movies were supposedly set a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away—but wow, do the costumes look up-to-the-minute modern. Maybe it’s because, as Tom Carson points out, today’s designers grew up watching Luke, Han, Lando, and Darth
Celebrities
The Movie That Inspired This Season's Look: Jaws
Forty years ago this summer, Jaws chomped its way into multiples and scared us all out of the water. In fact, we were so afraid that we forgot to notice: Those shark hunters looked good chasing ol' Bruce around the North Atlantic. Here, Tom Carson goes back to Amity Island and finds a surprising amount of depth in what the guys were wearing
Style
GQ Style: How David Lynch's Twin Peaks Inspired this Season's Look
For two weird, wonderful seasons in the early 1990s, network television was seized by a warped murder mystery from the mind of director David Lynch. Man, it was strange. And the strangest part of all may be that its grungy aesthetic has come back in style. Here, Tom Carson explains why Lynch's mystical Washington logging town was so far ahead of its time