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In 2021, Denis Villeneuve released one of the best sci-fi movies of all time with Dune, his massive adaptation of Frank Herbert’s landmark novel of the same name. Three years later, the second part of the expansive saga about Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) conquering his fear, surviving the unforgiving desert planet of Arrakis, and fulfilling
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Back in the ’80s and ’90s, long before he was Iron Man or a 2024 Oscar nominee for his staggering supporting work in Oppenheimer, Robert Downey, Jr. was known to dabble in the rom-com genre. There was 1987’s The Pick-Up Artist and ’89’s Chances Are and, of course, that early-’90s fan-favorite Only You, opposite Marisa Tomei.
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Co-writer/director Eli Roth’s horror hit Thanksgiving promised audiences that they would “come home for the holidays… in a body bag.” While most would obviously assume that the festivities in question would best be suited for that titular point on the calendar, one of the best 2023 horror movies has recently trended on Netflix. To some,
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From that open-ended finish in The Dark Knight Rises to the dreamy conclusion of Inception, Christopher Nolan is known for the thought-provoking finales he tacks onto his powerhouse films. And the director’s latest cinematic epic, Oppenheimer, is no exception, as star Cillian Murphy recently noted in a dual interview for Deadline. Murphy is a veteran
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American Fiction‘s Cliff Ellison—the flashy surgeon brother to Jeffrey Wright‘s Monk, who is letting his freak flag fly as a newly out gay man after divorcing his wife—ranks high among Sterling K. Brown’s best performances, earning the actor his first Oscar nomination. But will it be the one to score the multihyphenate talent that coveted
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The Bad Boys franchise was so widely loved that that calls for sequels persisted nearly two decades after its 2003 sequel. The long wait paid off for fan, as the elusive threequel, Bad Boys for Life, finally released in 2020 and became a box office hit. And, soon after, it was revealed that there were
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Poor Things has a shot at a very big Oscar night in a cou[ple weeks, as the film, a twisted take on the Frankenstein story, received a number of 2024 Academy Award nominations. Emma Stone could end up taking home the Best Actress award yet again, but it seems Stone’s nudity is the primary topic
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Rumors are circulating pointing to two of the best horror movies of all time could be getting remade, with Stephen King‘s The Dead Zone and American Psycho both allegedly set for on-the-horizon reimaginings. While genre purists might be sharpening their pitchforks over such news, possibly understandably, I’m over here already drafting a wishlist of what
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There are plenty of upcoming book adaptations and some could be more challenging to produce than others. That’s especially true when translating an epic science fiction novel like Frank Herbert’s magnum opus, Dune. David Lynch‘s 1984 attempt highlighted this fact, but Denis Villeneuve‘s first attempt, 2021’s Dune, was critically acclaimed upon its release. However, Villeneuve
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