The three most popular professions in cinema, based on the frequency with which they appear in movies, are writers, hitmen, and […]
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In 1957, European immigrant Frederick Kohner published the novel Gidget, The Little Girl with Big Ideas, about a girl who aspires […]
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When it was announced that Quentin Tarantino’s next film would involve the Manson Family murders, the news was met with excitement, […]
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Boy, that stunt/elaborate suicide attempt in the latest Tom Cruise blockbuster looks like a time and a half. I didn’t name […]
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When HBO announced its greenlighting of Confederate, a new series from the show-runners of Game of Thrones, the news was met […]
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“Hooray for Hollywood” will never sound right to me without the tin-can hiss of a VHS tape many times rewound. Growing […]
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The final scene of 1999’s Eyes Wide Shut takes place in a toy store. As Dr. Bill Harford and his wife, […]
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Until 1968, the term “zombie” was used to refer to the Haitian folklore belief of reanimating a dead body through magical […]
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One of the music cues Donald Trump used during his presidential campaign was from the soundtrack for Air Force One, a movie […]
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There’s aging badly and then there’s Revenge of the Nerds. What passed for collegiate underdog hijinks in 1984 goes by different […]
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I love rewatching my favorite movies. When you sit down to view any film, you approach it with your own experience […]
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At face value, 1981’s Neighbors is The Blues Brothers Take Suburbia. The yellowed cover of my VHS copy calls it “A […]
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