Steven Spielberg Almost Made ‘Interstellar’ and Then Gracefully Bowed Out
Before Christopher Nolan sent Matthew McConaughey through a black hole to cry at his daughter’s bookshelf, Steven Spielberg spent a full year developing Interstellar, only ...
Read moreOver 1,000 Hollywood Stars Just Declared War on Corporate Consolidation
There comes a moment in every industry when the workers realize they outnumber the bosses. In Hollywood, that moment arrived with an open letter signed ...
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Bruce Willis Made 22 Movies in Four Years and Nobody Asked Why (Until It Was Too Late)
There’s a particular kind of heartbreak reserved for watching someone you admire work through an illness they don’t understand yet. In Bruce Willis’s case, that ...
Read moreWhy ‘The Matrix’ Opened With Trinity Instead of Neo (And Why It Matters)
Every screenwriting teacher will tell you that your protagonist should appear in the first ten minutes. The Wachowskis said “screw that” and opened The Matrix ...
Read morePredator Is Still the Ultimate Macho Movie That Hates Macho Movies
You think you know Predator. You’ve seen the memes, you’ve quoted Arnold’s Austrian-accented one-liners, you’ve probably dressed up as the alien for Halloween at least ...
Read moreHow The Fast and the Furious Became the Most Unstoppable Franchise in Hollywood
In the summer of 2001, a movie about undercover cops and street racers opened to modest expectations and surprisingly strong box office. It was called ...
Read moreThe Battle of Coruscant Is Still the Gold Standard for Space Combat
There is a moment in the opening of Star Wars: Episode III—Revenge of the Sith when the camera tilts downward from the twinkling lights of ...
Read moreObi-Wan Kenobi Finally Explained Why Leia Cared So Much About a Man She’d Never Met
For forty-five years, Star Wars fans accepted a narrative quirk that made no sense if you thought about it for more than five seconds. In ...
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