Static Media/Getty Images Sylvester Stallone has been a Hollywood staple for five full decades at this point. Dating back to his first turn as the underdog boxer Rocky Balboa in 1972’s “Rocky,” the actor has been a mainstay of the screen. Like any actor who has managed to…
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FX Stephen King knows a thing or two about movies. Most of his books have been adapted into films, and he frequently offers up his opinions on other people’s films and TV shows, especially on Twitter (or “X,” as losers call it). For the most part, King tends to sing the…
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Static Media/Shutterstock Summer is drawing to a close, which can mean only one thing: spooky season is almost upon us. It’s the most wonderful time of the year! While some folks may limit their Halloween festivities to October, I’m a firm believer that September is the time to…
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Paramount Pictures Joe Dante, best known for directing 1984’s “Gremlins” and its sequel, thrives in the 1950s B-movie genre. Flashes of cartoon comedy can also be found in his work, such as 2003’s “Looney Tunes: Back in Action,” along with satirical dark comedic aspects in films like “The…
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Talent Associates/CBS Productions Before “Austin Powers,” “Johnny English,” and “Top Secret!” there was “Get Smart,” the 1960s spy sitcom that mined the genre for laughs when the James Bond and “Mission: Impossible” franchises were still in their infancies. Co-created by comedy legends Mel Brook and Buck Henry, “Get…
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There’s a lot to love about Joan in this period. She develops a surprising, tender friendship with Lane Pryce (Jared Harris), and her relationship with Peggy has now firmly gone from frenemies to just regular old friends. This is also the season that gives us the “Surprise, there’s an airplane here to see you!” line,…
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Paramount The transporter is one of the definitive gadgets of the “Star Trek” universe. Sure, there’s other impressive technology in this world, but faster than light starships, energy weapons, holograms, androids, etc.? Plenty of other science-fiction stories have those. The transporter, a device that “energizes” matter and reassembles…
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Marvel Studios It’s long been known that “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” underwent some behind-the-scenes changes when original director Scott Derrickson departed in 2020, to be replaced by Sam Raimi. What those changes were, though, and indeed what Derrickson had planned in the first place, remained…
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20th Century Studios (Welcome to Tales from the Box Office, our column that examines box office miracles, disasters, and everything in between, as well as what we can learn from them.) “It’s ridiculous, frankly, that a studio head, Emma Watts of Fox at the time, saw my little…
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CBS Television Distribution After Sherwood Schwartz’s hit sitcom “Gilligan’s Island” wrapped in 1967, actress Tina Louise, who played the glamorous movie star Ginger Grant, was finished. While most of Louise’s co-stars would return for “Gilligan’s Island” TV movies and spinoffs, she would stay away from the franchise, pursuing…
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