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Tom Breihan
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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…
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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…
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“The basic ecology of Hollywood is, I’m very much afraid, radically changing.” This was William Goldman,…
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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…
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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…
Jan 10
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Sometime after George Lucas’ 1977 Star Wars had become the highest-grossing movie of all time, Francis Ford Coppola…
Dec 27
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On the day before Thanksgiving, Donald J. Trump, currently the president of the United States of America, tweeted a…
Dec 18
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Oh shit, I thought. Here we go. It was 2014. I was in a movie theater, watching the first John Wick, a shockingly…
Dec 13
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In the 1949 thriller The Third Man, Orson Welles plays Harry Lime, one of the all-time great screen villains. Welles…
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There’s this thing I’ve been doing. I’m not proud of it. It’s embarrassing. But I do it every time I get bored or…
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John Wayne could’ve been in Blazing Saddles. When Mel Brooks was casting his absurdist Western parody, the film that…