Apr 16
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It’s been more than a decade since a wholly original film was the biggest hit of its year. All our reigning…
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Apr 2
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Film culture, especially popular film culture, moves in fits and starts. There’s a lot of money on the line, and the…
Mar 19
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The three part threes all arrived in May of 2007, one after the other after the other. First weekend in May: Spider-M…
Mar 5
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By most estimates, 2011’s Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides is the most expensive motion picture ever…
Feb 19
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In the fall of 2012, the Walt Disney Company dropped a four-billion-dollar bag of money on George Lucas’ desk and…
Feb 5
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Shrek was a “fuck you.” That was the entire point. This massively successful children’s film franchise owes its…
Jan 22
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“Fantasy is the one genre that’s never been done especially well,” Peter Jackson told The Los Angeles Times. “After…
Jan 8
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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…
Dec 16
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The highest-grossing movie of 2020 was an action movie. This was simply by default; movie theaters were only really…
Dec 11
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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…
Dec 2
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It finally happened. For nearly a decade, since The Avengers came out and crushed all expectations, people have been…
Nov 27
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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…
Nov 13
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Oct 30
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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…
Oct 16
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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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Sep 18
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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…
Sep 4
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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…
Aug 21
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About 20 minutes into Jurassic Park, Steven Spielberg captures perhaps the greatest Spielberg Face ever put on film.…
Aug 7
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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:…