Paramount Unless they’re a Klingon or Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner), pretty much everyone loves Tribbles. The alien critters, first introduced to the “Star Trek” franchise in the original series season 2 episode “The Trouble with Tribbles,” are cute little furballs who reproduce with incredible speed, sort of like…
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Static Media There’s no such thing as a “bad” year for movies — not if you watch enough of them. That statement might come across like a hackneyed cliché every time film fans trot that out and lob it into the ether like a self-righteous grenade ……
Static Media HBO is really committed to this whole “spending 10 years and the gross domestic product of a small country rebooting an improbably good film series for an audience that is more hostile to it than ever” thing, huh? It would be beating a dead Thestral…
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Columbia Pictures If you’ve delved into any American film history over the years, you’ve no doubt come across the sentiment that the 1970s was the best period for American cinema, bar none. Of course, any claim of opinion is up for debate, but the reasons for historians…
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NBC 41 years ago, HBO, then the most subscribed-to pay cable network in the United States, decided to expand its original programming (which consisted largely of stand-up comedy specials and boxing) with the uplifting, based-on-real-life film “The Terry Fox Story.” Though it didn’t set the world on…
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Warner Bros. Pictures You shall not pass … unless you’ve watched “The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim,” that is. This article contains major spoilers. The world of Middle-earth is expanding. “Rings of Power” gave us one of the biggest tragedies in the legendarium…
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Universal There is no secret to making a classic movie. There’s no tried-and-true formula or a can’t-miss piece of source material that equates to a masterpiece provided you assemble the right director, writer(s), and actors. And as Francis Ford Coppola learned while making “The Godfather,” there’s no…
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Static Media Angelina Jolie is one of the most celebrated actors of her generation, and one of Hollywood’s most notable humanitarians. She’s done vitally important work on behalf of refugees for the United Nations, and has also taken up for women’s rights in the third world. She’s…
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CBS Behind every cheerful, carefree franchise, there’s a fan theory hypothesizing that someone was dead the whole time. Despite having aired decades before fans began sharing viral theories that the castaways on “Lost,” musical teens in “Grease,” and even the old sweetie pie in “Up” somehow died…
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MGM Television When it launched in 2004, “Stargate Atlantis” may not have had MacGuyver himself, Richard Dean Anderson, but it did have an early-career Jason Momoa. The show was a spin-off from “Stargate SG-1,” which starred Dean Anderson as Colonel Jack O’Neil (taking over from Kurt Rusell…
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