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Picture this: You’re sitting in a darkened theater, popcorn in hand, watching yet another Alien movie unfold. The setup is familiar – a ragtag crew of space explorers, each with their own quirks and backstories, venturing into the unknown. You know what’s coming. By the third act, they’ll be running through dimly lit corridors, pursued by a nightmarish creature that’s more teeth than sense.
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It’s a devastating coda that underlines the tragedy of this family in general and also looks at Michael’s constant struggles against the grain of the family.
I mean first we learn that it was Sonny who introduced Carlo to the family, and therefore to Connie, which gives greater depth to the events of Part I.
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In the half-century since its release, Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” has lost none of its power to awe, inspire and mystify. This is a film that dares to dream on a cosmic scale, that reaches for the stars both literally and figuratively. It is a work of staggering ambition and meticulous execution, a symphony of sound and image that seeks nothing less than to unravel the mysteries of human existence.
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If you ever find yourself watching Apocalypse Now, it’s probably not because you stumbled upon it; it’s because you made a deliberate choice to lose yourself in a film that’s as maddening as it is mesmerizing. Francis Ford Coppola’s Vietnam epic is not just a film; it’s a fever dream of horror and beauty, a psychedelic reflection of war that aligns more closely with a bad trip than a historical recount.
Let’s face it, Dragon Ball fans. We’ve all collectively tried to forget the live-action misstep that was Dragonball: Evolution. But fear not, because deep down, a flicker of hope remains – the dream of a Dragon Ball Z movie that truly captures the spirit of the legendary anime.
So, grab your Senzu Beans and get ready to explore what a real Dragon Ball Z movie would look like.
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Ah, “Dragonball Evolution.” The movie that made us question our life choices, our taste in cinema, and whether we accidentally walked into a parody film.
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Hogwarts is old news now that Reddit user u/reddimatz has reimagined the Harry Potter crew as the cast of a nineties sitcom with the help of AI.
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“This is pretty much the worst video ever made” is what a large number of audiences said after seeing Napoleon Dynamite in theaters, but the line wasn’t an accurate summation of the film it’s from. Jon Heder, the actor behind the film’s title character, was poised for comedic supremacy in the mid-2000s, embodying the awkward outsider character perfectly. So why is he a seeming outsider in Hollywood these days?
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Jeepers, creepers, where’d ya get those peepers? Yeah, that song still triggers my fight or flight too, being one of the first horror films to truly keep me awake at night as a kid. Gina Phillips was an instrumental part in that, playing the main character Trish in the first movie. With the recent resurgence of her on-screen brother Justin Long in Barbarian, where is Trish at these days?
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Video game movies have some of the worst track records out there, and Nintendo’s original Plumber has one of the earliest bombs on record. That’s a lot on the line over thirty years later with even more games and additions to the Mario lore popping up in between, with not just Mario but Luigi and even Toad now having their own critically loved games as well. So did Illumination deliver on the new gamble of taking Nintendo’s Italian Stallion into an animated direction?
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Katie Leung stole our hearts as the adorable Cho Chang, Harry Potter’s very first love interest in Goblet of Fire. She was cute, sweet, kind, and really seemed into Harry, lamenting that she was unable to attend the Yule Ball with him as Cedric had asked her first.
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The original Potterheads are getting older and introducing a new generation of muggles to the magic. And we know that if you need to have a cozy weekend to yourself, watching all of the Harry Potter movies is the only way to go. While the golden trio of Harry, Hermione, and Ron normally get all the credit, they wouldn’t have done it without the help of amazing supporting characters.
Whether you read the books first or went straight for the movies, you couldn’t imagine anyone other than Evanna Lynch portraying the fearless Ravenclaw with an endless supply of words of wisdom, Luna Lovegood. Grab your broomstick and see what magic Evanna has been brewing since the Battle of Hogwarts was won.
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