The Coen Brothers Wrote Barton Fink Just To Break Their Writers' Block
When two geniuses take a break from writing one masterpiece to write another masterpiece.
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Tigertail's Production Was Skirting Disaster From Its Very First Scene
In which the making of a beautiful opening scene becomes a nightmare.
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Why Michael Douglas Feels Bittersweet About Gordon Gekko's Impact In Wall Street
Turns out greed is not actually good.
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How The Sea Beast Connects To Master And Commander And Game Of Thrones
Apparently, ropes are very hard to animate.
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Al Pacino's Dog Day Afternoon Doubts Manifested As A Mustache
A legendary Al Pacino performance. A painfully ordinary case of masculine insecurity.
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Annihilation's Trippy Nature Was A Tricky Problem For Screenwriters To Solve
'When you're dealing with abstractions, you can feel like you're in a mad loop...'
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Ryan Reynolds' Detective Pikachu Co-Stars Didn't Have Much To Work With
It was super effective!
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She-Hulk: Attorney At Law Trailer Breakdown: She's Big, She's Green, And She'll Step On You
Meet Jennifer Walters: attorney by day, attorney by, well, night too. Until she gets a big green visitor.
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How 24 Inspired Charlie Brooker's Zombie Mini Series Dead Set
What does a satiric zombie miniseries from 2008 have in common with the adventures of Jack Bauer? Not much, but just enough.
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Explaining All Of The Powers Of Pennywise
It's villain Pennywise is so terrifying because of his multifaceted abilities. Here are the deadly powers he employs to hunt the children of Derry.
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Cassandra Peterson's Role In Rob Zombie's Munsters Was Decades In The Making
It probably won't surprise you in the slightest to learn that Rob Zombie and Cassandra Peterson are friends.
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Platoon Ending Explained: A Mad Swirl Of Destruction
Platoon's ending is a mad swirl of destruction punctuated by Taylor's execution of Barnes. How did it come to this, and what does this wanton destruction mean?
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Year Of The Vampire: In Horror Of Dracula, Christopher Lee Gave The Genre Its First Real Teeth
Hammer Horror's Horror of Dracula gave the vampire genre its first real bite.
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Brad Pitt Did Everything In His Power To Keep Seven's Ending Intact
Including what was in THAT box.
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Shifting His Focus To Female-Led Films Felt Natural For Park Chan-Wook
And it all started with Lady Vengeance.
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Firestarter Used A John Carpenter Classic As A Starting Point For Its Score
John Carpenter was asked to compose the score for the remake of Firestarter, and he was given one of his own movies as a piece of sonic inspiration.
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Men Director Alex Garland Doesn't Like To Make Obvious Winks And Nods To His Inspirations
He has his influences, but he tries to not wear them on his sleeve.
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The Main Difference Between Re-Animator's R-Rated And Unrated Versions
Let's talk about Re-Animator.
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Scream For Your Lives! In Praise Of The Communal Nature Of Horror
Watching horror movies with a crowd stresses something vital about cinema: it is a shared experience.
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Matthew McConaughey Went Primal Committing To His Reign Of Fire Role
Matthew McConaughey mat not have been a certified action star in the early 2000s, but that didn't stop him from being a total badass in Reign of Fire.
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The Problem With Disfigured Villains In Pop Culture
The most recent iteration of the Joker in The Batman perpetuates a troubling trope with facial disfigurements on the big screen.
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Jerrod Carmichael Was Careful With How He Handled On The Count Of Three's Heavy Themes
'I'm really big on the intelligence of the audience and their ability to interpret from an ending like their own emotion and trusting that.'
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Revisiting Attack Of The Clones 20 Years Later: A Mess, But One Ahead Of Its Time
Attack of the Clones is not a masterpiece, nor is it perfect, and it isn't even the best Star Wars movie — but it is far from the worst prequel.
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