Buena Vista Pictures If you’ve seen 1993’s “Tombstone,” you know that it contains one of the greatest visual effects ever seen in a Western. No, it’s not the movie’s explosive gunfights, nor is it the shots featuring teams of horses being ridden over precarious terrain. Instead, it’s…
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HBO Even after coming to an abrupt end in 2007, audiences still won’t stop believing that “The Sopranos” is one of the best TV shows (if not the best TV show) ever made. The story of Tony Soprano’s (James Gandolfini) struggles to serve as the heads of…
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CBS Television Distribution Thanks to the earworm that is “The Ballad of Gilligan’s Island,” most audiences know how Gilligan (Bob Denver) and the other castaways became stranded. Gilligan and the Skipper (Alan Hale) took five passengers on an intended three-hour tour of the Hawai’ian islands when they…
Walt Disney might have the most Oscar wins personally, but the Mouse House itself has proven far less lucky with respect to Best Picture. Again, if we disclude both Searchlight Pictures and 20th Century Studios (née Fox), Walt Disney Studios has amassed 13 Best Picture Oscar nods but no wins between movies it’s released through…
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CBS “Young Sheldon,” the “Big Bang Theory” spinoff that ran for seven seasons, is for the most part a pretty standard lighthearted network sitcom. The main exception to this rule is that, thanks to all the little bits of backstory we got of older Sheldon’s childhood on…
Static Media A series finale offers a show one last chance to make a grand statement about its core themes while offering a send-off to its main characters. However, just like a pilot episode, not all series finales are created equal, with some managing to stick the…
Michael Gibson / Paramount+ The fifth and final season of “Star Trek: Discovery” began with a tantalizing premise. Captain Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) receives a Red Directive from a top Federation official, Dr. Kovich (David Cronenberg), tasking her with a secret mission. There is an abandoned 800-year-old Romulan…
FX Book collecting can be an expensive hobby to get into, but some lucky horror fans might secretly have an out-of-print Stephen King book on their shelves that’s worth a fair bit of money. Not only that, but the book is likely to never go back into…
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SpaceX has experienced an unprecedented year in 2024, launching a record-breaking 138 missions, including 134 with its Falcon family of rockets. This remarkable achievement cemented its position as the most active launch operator globally, accounting for over half of all launches conducted worldwide. Notably, the company’s launch cadence saw a nearly 40% increase compared to…
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Paramount Pictures Before “La La Land” was causing chaos at the Oscars, musicals were putting the ceremony in another mini-crisis back in 2008. That was the year that saw the box office hit “Enchanted” (a Disney kids film starring Amy Adams) nominated for three songs: “Happy Working…
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