When we last saw Hutch Mansell — family man, former government assassin, and the formidable antihero of the 2021 action movie Nobody — he’d burned down his house, taken out most of the Russian Mafia, and resettled in another suburb. The world’s deadliest middle-aged dad also took a mysterious phone …
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The thing about puppies is, they start out all small and cute and oh-so-adorable. Look at their puppy paws, way too big for their itty-bitty widdle bodies! Listen to their playful woofs and yips, as they tumble around and trip over themselves! Feel how fuzzy their rolly-polly bellies are, as …
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Since the 1897 publication of H.G. Wells’ novel The War of the Worlds, the story and its subsequent adaptations has served as the quintessential allegory for the power struggles that shape our world — and a time capsule of the media that informs us about them. There was the Orson …
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In her nearly 50-year career, Jamie Lee Curtis says she’s only improvised one single line: “Make good choices.” These are the words her character, Dr. Tess Coleman, yelled out the car window to her daughter Anna (Lindsay Lohan) in the 2003 body-swap comedy Freaky Friday. That beloved, heavily-memed quote is …
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The clock strikes 2:17 a.m., and as if heeding some sort of pied piper’s call, 17 children run away. They just get up out of their beds, flee their houses and, arms outstretched, bolt into the night. No one has a clue as to where these kids went. The only …
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Part of the promotional campaign for The Naked Gun legacy sequel was a trailer spoofing charity promotional videos, as star Liam Neeson pleaded with viewers to buy a ticket and help save the entire business of movie comedies. The joke sadly wasn’t too far off from the truth. Theatrical comedies …
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Noah Hawley recently said of his plan for Alien: Earth, the first TV show based on the iconic science-fiction/action-horror film series, “Imagine if there were five movies about the White Walkers, and I went and made Game of Thrones.” Hawley is a creator who has never lacked confidence in his …
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How much do you love your significant other? Let’s rephrase the question: Do you love them so much that you can’t bear to be apart from them? Like, literally apart from them? Midway through Together, the debut feature from Australian filmmaker Michael Shanks, a character trots out Plato’s theory of …
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The late Chadiwck Boseman’s final credited work as an actor came in four episodes of What If?, the Disney+ animated series exploring various ways that events in the Marvel Cinematic Universe could have unfolded differently. As we look back on the messy past five years of Marvel Studios, we can …
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It takes a bold man to step into the shoes of Leslie Nielsen, former Hollywood matinee idol (see how heroic and gallant he is in 1956’s Forbidden Planet!) and late-in-life comedic genius. Thank God — or rather, thank the holy trinity of David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker — …
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