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…
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…
Oct 2
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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
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Imagine being the person who has to dig through hours upon hours of tape of Robin Williams riffing. Someone had to:…
Jul 24
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Jul 10
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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.…