Unfortunately, being introduced to Jean-Luc Picard as such a storied character from the get-go meant that his history was easy to lose in the shuffle. At long last, we're here to face that oversight head on with Captain Picard's backstory explained. Engage!
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There are a whole lot of dumb things in Gremlins that everyone ignored, and continue to ignore, for good reason. After all, it's a genuinely special film. But with every rewatch, all of those dumb little moments get louder and way more obvious.
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In a profile with The New York Times, former Bruce Banner actor Edward Norton revealed that he pitched to Marvel not one but two movies centered around the Hulk — films that would be dark, gritty, and evocative of Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins (which spurred sequels in 2008 and 2012).
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If you first watched The Nightmare Before Christmas as a kid, plenty of moments slipped past you -- some of which you've probably noticed after rewatching this classic with more mature eyes. Here's a look at some things only adults notice in The Nightmare Before Christmas.
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Today, The Goonies is looked upon as a classic. But there's a problem with revisiting a childhood favorite later on on life, and there's just no way to ignore these dumb things in The Goonies any longer.
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Arthur Fleck's biggest joke just might be the one he pulled on you. Joker director Todd Phillips recently made a few very interesting comments to the Los Angeles Times in regard to the final scene of the movie — comments which imply a bizarre truth about the nature of the story being presented.
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Marc Maron isn't laughing. After Joker director Todd Phillips made controversial comments about "woke culture" ruining comedy, Joker actor Maron has come forward to offer his thoughts on the argument. Unsurprisingly, Maron disagrees with Phillips' assessment.
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It's easy to blink and miss some of Woody Harrelson's most daring and most hilarious moments, both on and off the screen. Fortunately, we're here to fill in some of the lesser-known details of Harrelson's life and screen legacy. It's time for his entire story to be told.
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Numerous elements of the Batman mythos are given a makeover in Joker that makes everything feel more familiar to the real world, and in many ways more effective. Keep reading for our assessment of what Joker gets right that other Batman movies got wrong.
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Michael Jordan's year in the Birmingham Barons and Scottsdale Scorpions is getting the cinematic treatment.
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Stanley Kubrick's The Shining is a masterpiece. As a result, some details in the film that seem out of place serve to illustrate the supernatural forces at work in the Overlook. But others can't be dismissed so easily. Here are a few dumb things in The Shining that we just can't ignore.
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As one of the biggest pop culture sensations of 2018, it makes sense that Marvel fans might want to rewatch Black Panther, revisiting their favorite Wakandans and experiencing Ryan Coogler's world over and over again. It also makes sense that they would wonder if the film is on Netflix.
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Sounds like the filmmaker is going to save Sony's long-embattled project.
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Oh my God, they're back again. Sony Pictures Entertainment has lifted the lid off the red-band trailer for Zombieland: Double Tap, the hotly anticipated Zombieland sequel that will hit theaters a full decade after the original. The footage reveals the return of an epic character from the 2009 film.
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Samuel L. Jackson is "laying his vengeance" upon a certain filmmaking legend after some pointed comments about Marvel movies. In response to Martin Scorsese's dismissive remarks about the quality of Marvel films, Jackson, known for his bombastic attitude and often profane language, kept a cool head.
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Joker's box office haul is no laughing matter. The Joaquin Phoenix-led film — which serves as a particularly dark origin story one of pop culture's most famous characters, the Joker — smashed a box office record with its opening weekend revenue.
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Director Todd Philips has been clear it was never his intention to adapt any specific comic when he directed Joker, and now that we can all see the film for ourselves, it's clear that he meant it. Here are some of the biggest ways Joker is different from the comics.
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Spooky season is officially upon us, and Netflix is kicking off the most frightful time of year with a film that promises scares in line with 2018's genre-smashing shocker Hereditary. Horror author Joe Hill recently said that Netflix's new flick In the Tall Grass is "Hereditary-level scary."
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Creating a unique take on the Joker was a bit of a moving target for Joaquin Phoenix. The actor recently sat down with the ReelBlend podcast to discuss the difficulties that he and director Todd Phillips had in nailing down the right characterization during the filming of Joker.
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Black Panther director Ryan Coogler is taking some time away from Wakanda for an intriguing new comic book project. Coogler will produce an adaptation of the comic book series Bitter Root for Legendary, basing it on the Image comics created by Chuck Brown, Sanford Greene, and David F. Walker.
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Spider-Ham remained on the periphery of Marvel Comics for decades, but since the success of Into the Spider-Verse, the little sausage hero is making himself more and more visible in popular media. So, we think maybe it might be time for the untold truth of Spider-Ham.
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While Matt Damon has undoubtedly passed on dozens of movie roles in his career, it seems there's one in particular that's likely had him asking himself the very question his character from Good Will Hunting famously taunted a rival with. Here's the major movie role Damon turned down.
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No Mighty Marvel for Marty. In a recent conversation with Empire magazine, Martin Scorsese — perhaps the world's greatest living film director — had some pretty harsh words for the movies of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which is by far the highest-grossing film franchise in history.
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Let the battle begin. With the arrival of director Todd Phillips' long-awaited Joker movie, a new challenger has entered the arena in hopes of becoming the new Best Joker Actor Ever. Now that Joker has landed in theaters, who's the better Clown Prince of Crime: Joaquin Phoenix or Heath Ledger?
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Joker definitely goes its own way with the depiction of the legendary Clown of Prince of Crime, right up to its explosive and unforgettable climax. Now that everyone's had a chance to see the film, it's time to talk about what it all built to and how it all paid off.
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There's a handful of subtle references to films, real-world events, and even the silent art of mime lurking in Joker's grim and gritty Gotham City. If you're still reeling from the violence and drama of Arthur Fleck's tragic journey, read on to find out about the little things you might've missed.
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Stephen King delves deep into the psyches and lives of even his most marginal characters, which can make adaptations of his stories into a visual medium pretty tricky. His magnum opus, It, has been brought to both TV and the big screen. How do the casts stack up? Float on down and see.
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