CBS Television Distribution There is a general aesthetic rule in animation, often stressed in animation schools, called the silhouette principle. The idea is that an animator, when designing a character, should endeavor to create something that can instantly be recognized in silhouette. Think of a character like Bart…
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Static Media Many would surely agree with the argument that Meryl Streep is the best actor ever. Having made her stage debut in 1975, the Yale School of Drama alum already had two Oscar nominations to her name by 1980, even winning the Best Supporting Actress award for…
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HBO The hit HBO series “Game of Thrones” has a bit of a complicated legacy, with a final season that disappointed many critics and fans, especially those who had developed their own elaborate theories for how it would all end. It was easy to become attached to the many…
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Comedy Central As of September 2024, “South Park” has aired 328 episodes over 26 seasons. Not all of these episodes are winners, but there’ve been enough classics to make it seem wild for anyone to think they could narrow it down to just a top 10. Nevertheless, I’m…
Static Media One of the more hopeful aspects of the notoriously optimistic “Star Trek” is that in the future, all disabilities will be readily and easily accommodated. While one might argue that the miracle technologies at hand in “Star Trek” might be able to undo any and all…
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Static Media/Getty Images While “Jaws” wasn’t Steven Spielberg’s first movie, it was the movie that put Spielberg on the map. Plagued by production woes (it went over-budget and over-schedule), there was a really good chance that “Jaws” could’ve ended Spielberg’s career just as it was getting started. Instead,…
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MGM In Roland Emmerich’s “Stargate,” Special Operations Colonel Jack O’Neil (played by a brilliant Kurt Russell) is as blunt as it gets. When linguist Daniel Jackson (James Spader) is invited to assist with the Stargate mission, O’Neil is frank about his disdain for an outsider involved in such…
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Paramount In the “Star Trek: The Next Generation” episode “Manhunt” (June 19, 1989), Betazoid ambassador Lwaxana Troi (Majel Barrett) hitches a ride on the Enterprise-D, partly to visit her daughter Deanna (Marina Sirtis), but mostly to flirt with Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart). It seems that Lwaxana is going…
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Buena Vista Pictures Distribution Tom Cruise has become pretty well known for his willingness to do absolutely ridiculous, potentially life-threatening stunts in the name of cinema, but one of his earliest and least-beloved roles nearly earned him a broken nose. Long before he was stunt fighting onboard a…
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We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Static Media There has never been a television series quite like “Raised by Wolves,” which only ran for two seasons on HBO Max before being cancelled. The science fiction show followed the last survivors of humanity as they tried…
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