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Static Media/Shutterstock When it’s not getting review bombed by angry fans, IMDb is a fountain of filmic knowledge that has all the answers. Besides being the solution to every movie section at Trivia Night, the Internet Movie Database also has a list of the top 250 films […]
Warner Bros. “There’s definitely room for some improvement on the administrative side,” Denzel Washington said in a recent interview with The Talks. He, just as much as anyone, realizes the unfortunate habits that the Hollywood machine instantly falls into whenever they get a whiff of success. Generally […]
CBS Television Distribution The premise of Sherwood Schwartz’s popular 1964 sitcom “Gilligan’s Island” is handily explained in its theme song: five passengers check into a three-hour boat tour, run by the skipper and first mate of a tiny tourist boat called the S.S. Minnow. The ship hits […]
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Election Day, aka the most fraught, divisive, and anxiety-inducing time of American politics, is almost upon us once again … and Hollywood, as always, tends to offer up the perfect distraction (like this past episode of “SNL”). Then again, I suppose that depends […]
Static Media There are two ways of looking at Clint Eastwood’s 1980s. One is to view them as an enshrinement. Eastwood turned 50 at the outset of the decade, and the movies were either mainstream-skewing victory laps or thoughtful departures; the star wasn’t above coasting, but he made […]
Static Media/Getty Images Getting a film made is far easier said than done. That’s why most Hollywood movies are based on pre-existing material — both to try and speed up the process of generating a story itself, and to have some assurance that there’s an audience for the […]
Static Media In 1997, when Matt Damon and Ben Affleck wrote and starred in Gus Van Sant’s “Good Will Hunting,” it immediately propelled the pair onto the ineffable Hollywood A-list. Both of them had been acting for several years and had participated in a few notable studio pictures, […]
What would the moviegoing experience be without Sir Ian McKellen? An actor with a towering, half-century-plus career, theater-trained performer McKellen has become synonymous not just with great plays and serious dramas, but with huge sci-fi and fantasy blockbusters. McKellen headlined two major franchises in the aughts, playing indelible parts in […]