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This article contains spoilers for Wicked: For Good. The Broadway fans tried to warn us. Ever since the news came down that the film adaptation of Wicked would break the megahit musical into two separate films, fans have warned that second act isn’t nearly as good as the first. It’s not just that the story […]

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One would think that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are a pretty straightforward concept. You’ve got four brothers with distinct personalities, they’re ninjas and turtles. They like to party and they fight the Shredder. Rinse, repeat, cowabunga. But for whatever reason, current rights holders Paramount, just like New Line Cinema and others before them, feel […]

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Without question, we’re all looking forward to Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz returning for The Mummy 4. But we also have to admit that, while the 1999 original may be perfect, it’s a franchise with only one good entry. Instead of realizing that the second film failed because it strayed too far from the formula […]

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“The name’s Califragilisticexpialidocious… Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.” Those words were almost spoken on screen. Sort of. Now nearly 100 years old, Hollywood legend Dick Van Dyke has had a glorious career, playing everything from a clumsy comedy writer to an affable chimney sweep to a sleuthing doctor. But he almost had a chance to play James Bond, the […]

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Never bet against James Cameron. Time and time again, Cameron has made gigantic gambles that everyone doubted, whether it was spending a record-breaking amount of money for a sequel for his grimy horror flick about a killer robot from the future or spending another record-breaking amount of money on to recreate the sinking of the […]

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Kindness is the new punk rock. That’s the message of Superman, James Gunn‘s universally-loved, big budget 2025 film about the Man of Steel. But decades earlier, a much less-loved, much cheaper, Superman-adjacent movie came to the same conclusion. And while it was mocked at the time, that film managed to marry the message to a […]

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Perhaps fitting for a franchise about espionage and double-crosses, James Bond fans love their conspiracies and secret information. Even before the advent of the world wide web, Bond aficionados traded theories about James Bond being a code name, behind-the-scenes wrangling, and, of course, plans for the next actor to take on the role. One of […]

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As fitting his shape-shifting abilities, Clayface is one of DC’s most malleable characters. Appearing in everything from DC Comics to the television series Gotham to the recent Batman 1989 continuation novels, Clayface has changed his shape, his personality, and even his secret identity to meet the needs of whatever story he’s in. So when writer […]

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Never say never again… again? In most cases, actors who leave the role of James Bond abandon the tux and martinis completely exhausted and never wanting to return. Daniel Craig‘s colorful, evocative language and George Lazenby’s surprising abandonment of the role are the most famous examples of an actor forcefully leaving the part, but even […]

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From time to time, cinephiles can be guilty of hyperbole. Maybe it isn’t entirely true that Martin Scorsese understands the human condition better than Homer, Shakespeare, or Austen. Perhaps it is a bit much to call the studio heads of RKO history’s greatest monsters for taking away The Magnificent Ambersons from Orson Welles. And it […]

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During an interview with Time Out about 2015’s Spectre, Daniel Craig did not even attempt to hide his disdain for the Bond franchise. When asked about playing 007 again, he said, “Now? I’d rather break this glass and slash my wrists.” When asked if his statement meant he would never do another Bond film, Craig […]

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At this point, we can be honest. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is a bad movie. Oh, it has its moments, particularly in the first half: the initial attack of the Talokans on the American ship, T’Challa’s funeral, every single thing that Angela Bassett does as Queen Ramonda. But the movie suffers from too much fragmentation, […]

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This article contains slight spoilers for The Running Man. The 1987 movie The Running Man may be a delightfully weird bit of Arnold Schwarzenegger cheese, but it doesn’t have much to do with the 1982 novel that Stephen King published under the pen name Richard Bachman. For his 2025 adaptation, Edgar Wright has tried to […]

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