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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:…
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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…
Jun 26
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It took five years to get the Ghostbusters back on screen. 1984’s Ghostbusters had struck gold, capturing public…
Jun 12
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Somebody should’ve been chasing Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise. They should’ve accidentally stolen a shipment of…
May 29
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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…
May 15
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Midway through Top Gun, the highest-grossing movie of 1986, there’s a scene where the film briefly abandons all…
May 1
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“Sir, do we get to win this time?” That’s John Rambo, talking to his old mentor Colonel Trautman, at the beginning…
Apr 17
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There’s a brief moment early in Beverly Hills Cop where Axel Foley, a resourceful and gleefully disrespectful young…
Apr 3
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Mar 20
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“The basic ecology of Hollywood is, I’m very much afraid, radically changing.” This was William Goldman,…
Mar 6
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The plane has just exploded. Indiana Jones and Marion Ravenwood have killed about a dozen Nazi soldiers and escaped.…
Feb 21
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George Lucas did not invent franchise filmmaking. The first movie sequel, The Fall Of A Nation, came out way back in…
Feb 7
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The opening scenes of Kramer Vs. Kramer, the highest-grossing film of 1979, play out like a horror movie. Dustin…
Jan 24
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John Travolta was 24 years old when he became quite possibly the biggest movie star in the world. Travolta, a…