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“Fantasy is the one genre that’s never been done especially well,” Peter Jackson told The Los Angeles Times. “After…
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The bus is a carnival of humiliation. The driver won’t stop, so Peter Parker has to run alongside, banging on the…
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The highest-grossing movie of 2020 was an action movie. This was simply by default; movie theaters were only really…
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There was always going to be a Harry Potter movie franchise. As soon as the first J.K. Rowling novel ascended the New…
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It finally happened. For nearly a decade, since The Avengers came out and crushed all expectations, people have been…
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For most of his life, Theodor Geisel, the children’s author who used the name Dr. Seuss, wouldn’t license his books…
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In November 1997, Tom Hanks and Ben Affleck were in The New York Times Magazine together. On the cover, the two of…
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It’s the string quartet that really gets me. The passengers are running around, screaming, doing everything they can…
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You shouldn’t be able to make great art by committee. A great work of art is supposed to be made by one person…
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When my wife was a teenager, she had to wear a name tag that read “Gump.” At her place of work, everyone did. She…
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About 20 minutes into Jurassic Park, Steven Spielberg captures perhaps the greatest Spielberg Face ever put on film.…
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Loaded with Robin Williams riffs and killer songs, Aladdin was a whole new world for animated movies
Imagine being the person who has to dig through hours upon hours of tape of Robin Williams riffing. Someone had to:…
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Imagine it’s 1990 and you’re Joe Pesci. You’ve had a solid career as a character actor for a decade. You have one…
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It took five years to get the Ghostbusters back on screen. 1984’s Ghostbusters had struck gold, capturing public…
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Somebody should’ve been chasing Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise. They should’ve accidentally stolen a shipment of…
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The best Star Trek movie is a comedy. In 1986’s Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, the crew of the USS Enterprise…
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Midway through Top Gun, the highest-grossing movie of 1986, there’s a scene where the film briefly abandons all…