Warner Bros. Wolfgang Petersen’s 2004 peplum film “Troy” told the age-old tale of the Trojan War but with a realistic sheen. In Homer’s worn old rendition of “The Iliad,” the gods played a major role in the outcome of the war between Troy and the Achaeans, and they…
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HBO “Game of Thrones” was already popular by the time we hit the episode “Baelor,” but it was Ned Stark’s untimely beheading that helped turn the show into one of the biggest cultural events of the 2010s and a series that dominated the conversation for years. After that…
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Static Media In the “Star Trek: The Next Generation” episode “The Pegasus” (January 10, 1994), Commander Riker (Jonathan Frakes) is reunited with Admiral Erik Pressman (Terry O’Quinn), his former commanding officer on board a ship called the U.S.S. Pegasus. Pressman is visiting the Enterprise to reveal that Starfleet…
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Columbia Pictures Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 classic “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb” remained depressingly relevant. We live on a planet wherein humans have invented single explosive devices powerful enough to eliminate all life on Earth, and yet they are being handled…
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Castle Rock Entertainment Frank Darabont’s 1994 prison drama “The Shawshank Redemption,” based on a novella by Stephen King, experienced a type of slow success that films don’t seem capable of achieving anymore. Released in theaters in late September, “Shawshank” didn’t open to huge numbers, and it didn’t cause…
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Static Media There are a lot of good-to-great Stephen King movies … and then there’s the “Children of the Corn” series. Somehow, King’s short story “Children of the Corn,” originally published in a 1977 issue of Penthouse and added to his 1978 short story collection “Night Shift,” has popped…
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AMC Some might have thought that the door closed on Bryan Cranston playing chemistry-teacher-turned-meth-kingpin Walter White after the character’s dramatic death in the series finale of “Breaking Bad,” but they would be sorely mistaken. Cranston has reprised the role a couple of times since, mostly in projects directly tied to…
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Paramount Some Trekkies might be able to tell you that filming “Star Trek: The Original Series” wasn’t always a pleasant experience for the cast. Indeed, stars William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy were both notorious spotlight hogs and Shatner was known to reassign other actors’ dialogue to himself, usually…
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Static Media Even the most popular and successful science fiction television series see changes to their main cast over the years. From the grueling schedule of long filming hours to trying to seek new opportunities in one’s career, there are numerous reasons actors leave fan-favorite roles behind. Of…
CBS Not all actors enjoy watching themselves on-screen — Adam Driver famously walked out of an interview with NPR’s Terry Gross when she played a clip of one of his scenes from “Marriage Story,” to present the most extreme example. Apparently, Mayim Bialik also hates watching her own…
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