Misery's Most Famous Scene Cost The Film Its First Director
The original version of Misery's most famous scene almost kneecapped the movie's production.
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Why Joss Whedon Felt He 'Lied' To The Cast Of Firefly
The showrunner made a promise he couldn't quite keep.
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You know a Spielberg film when you see it. But for Spielberg himself, the joy comes from not seeing himself on the screen.
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Conversion camp slasher They/Them touches on some interesting ideas, but the movie's ending falls short of properly engaging with them.
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Genndy Tartakovsky's upcoming animated movie Fixed is for adults only — but it's still tasteful!
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Christopher Lee Had To Take Promoting The Wicker Man Into His Own Hands
Called the Citizen Kane of horror, The Wicker Man was a groundbreaking vision of folk horror; its star, Christopher Lee, played a huge role in getting it seen.
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How does Netflix's The Sandman paint Dee as a villain, and how different is it from his complicated comics history?
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Dan Trachtenberg's Predator prequel goes out on a high note.
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Mitchum didn't care much for authority or societal norms.
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The 5 Coolest Moments In Prey
The 2022 movie Prey brings back the Predator, but in a whole new (and very cool) setting: the past.
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The Career Frustrations That Pushed Paul Newman Into The Director's Chair
Paul Newman is a legendary actor of the New Hollywood era, but his run of fascinating and critically lauded directorial efforts are curiously under-appreciated.
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HBO Max Controversies Serve As A Reminder Of Why Physical Media Matters
HBO Max took some streaming movies off their platform, and any streamer can do something like this at any time. That's why we still champion physical media.
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Few directors respect an actor's craft quite like Scorsese, and these performances are the best of the best.
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A whole lot of accidents and bad decisions and fateful choices had to happen for Bogart to take on his most iconic role.
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Why Annihilation Bombed At The Box Office, And What We Can Learn From It
The story behind the box office 'failure' of Alex Garland's arthouse sci-fi movie is more complicated than you'd think.
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So you think you can survive a psychological horror movie, huh? Wanna bet?
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Stephen King's reach in the horror world is unlimited. There are even a couple easter eggs in the 2003 Eliza Dushku starring film Wrong Turn.
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By now, aren't we all zombie movie lovers? A new film nuclear apocalyptic zombie film starring the legendary Pam Grier is coming soon to a theater near you.
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It Took Steven Spielberg Years To Get Daniel Day-Lewis In Lincoln
It was a rare case where Spielberg had to actively pursue an actor who said 'no.'
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The Daily Stream: A Perfectly Unnecessary, Itemized Batch Of 70 Stranger Things Notes
In which one /Film writer gets caught up on this little show called Stranger Things.
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True Grit's TV Rights Sparked A Legal Battle With John Wayne
True Grit would win John Wayne his first Oscar, thus making the film much more valuable when it came to selling the TV rights.
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A Legal Battle With Francis Ford Coppola Could Have Been The End Of Contact
That he had the audacity to file the lawsuit when he did is shocking.
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Bodies, Bodies, Bodies Review: The Gen Z Horror-Comedy Romp Is Fast, Funny, And A Tonally On-Point Terror
Real life will always be bloodier than fiction.
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How Steven Soderbergh Shaped The Russo Brothers' Filmmaking Style
'A common thread in our style is that we like to not have a common thread.'
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The Himeji Castle Horror Story That Inspired The Ring And Ringu
If you remove the cursed VHS tape, The Ring starts to resemble classic Japanese ghost tale...
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Walton Goggins started in a small part on FX's Justified but quickly grew into one of the series' most beloved characters -- despite his dark origins.
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