We are a country obsessed with reboots. Refashioning tired narratives into something that ideally becomes new in its retelling. Or, perhaps, just makes studio executives more money. We after all must endure an endless return of Marvel and DC characters, adaptations of adaptations, until everything feels like a shitty copy …
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When older film fans lament the loss of the mid-budget movie made for grown-ups, Presumed Innocent is an obvious example of what they have in mind. The 1990 adaptation of Scott Turow’s best-selling legal thriller — starring Harrison Ford as a prosecutor charged with killing his mistress — wasn’t meant …
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Nearly a decade after Adam Driver killed Harrison Ford on the big screen, Star Wars fans are still harassing the actor for his character Kylo Ren’s impetuous decision to dispatch his on-screen father, Han Solo. “Somebody reminds me about that every day,” Driver told CNN’s Chris Wallace in a new …
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Quick Answer: You can stream the first four Indiana Jones movies on Disney+ or Paramount+, or you can rent them on Amazon Prime Video. More than 40 years after we first met Indiana Jones, the archaeology professor has returned to the silver screen for a fifth and final adventure. Indiana …
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They sold it with a list of surnames: Stallone. Statham. Li. Lundgren. Couture. Austin. Crews. Willis. The only name missing was Schwarzenegger, and that’s simply because they wanted his cameo to be a surprise. (He’d make the poster for the sequel.) Two of them came from the worlds of pro-wrestling …
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Mads Mikkelsen embodies real-life captain Ludvig Kahlen in a new trailer for The Promised Land. The historical drama, directed by Nikolaj Arcel, is set to premiere at the Venice Film Festival. The clip reveals Mikkelsen as Kahlen, who set out to conquer the harsh, uninhabitable Danish heath with the aim …
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You’ve seen him ripping a motorboat through the canals of Venice, Italy, during the opening heist of The Italian Job, dodging flying cars in the Fast and the Furious films, and doubling for Harrison Ford, most recently in the blockbuster Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. He was even …
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When Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert sat down at the end of 1993 to pick their 10 favorite movies of the year, they largely selected prestige, Oscar-bait films like The Piano, The Age of Innocence, The Joy Luck Club, and Schindler’s List. They skipped nearly all of the big multiplex …
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Harrison Ford exposed Conan O’Brien as a Star Wars newbie during the Indiana Jones actor’s visit to the former late-night host’s podcast, Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend. In a clip from the interview, O’Brien and Ford reminisce about the latter’s frequent visits to Late Night, though Ford admits he remembers …
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Tom Cruise‘s latest mission is to single-handedly prove that movies should be seen in theaters. The Mission: Impossible star has confirmed he will see Christopher Nolan‘s Oppenheimer and Greta Gerwig‘s Barbie as soon as they open simultaneously on July 21. “I want to see bothBarbieandOppenheimer,” the actor told The Sydney …
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