The fate of the furious Teased a Toretto family civil war, but ended up ruining it Fast & Furious Franchise’s best storytelling opportunity on a predictable blackmail storyline. There is a case to be made that these Fast & Furious Series should have ended with Furious 7. Furious 7 was retold in a tribute to Paul Walker when the actor sadly died during filming. The final scene of Dom and Brian having one last street race before Brian takes an exit and leaves Dom behind would have been the perfect ending to this epic saga. But since Universal wanted to…
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Warning: This article contains spoilers for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. Jeremy subtly foreshadows his shocking villain twist in his very first scene in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice – Thanks for a well-placed Dostoevsky reference. When Jenna Ortega’s Astrid Deetz has had enough of her family’s nonsense, she gets on her bike and rides through Winter River. After running off the road from an American truck, she fell through a fence and hit a tree. There, she meets her love interest, Jeremy, who’s hanging out in his tree house, reading Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky. As Astrid and Jeremy discuss their love of Dostoevsky’s…
A24 has set release dates for funny And The Brutalist in late 2024 — at the height of awards season — which will make them both eligible for Oscar nominations in 2025. Awards season is still a couple of months away, but the 2025 Oscar race is already starting to heat up. There is a lot of buzz around Ridley Scott’s Gladiator IISteve McQueen’s World War II drama Flashand James Mangold’s Bob Dylan biopic A complete unknownand Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Perez and Pedro Almodóvar’s The room next door Get some international attention. Angelina Jolie, Mikey Madison and Saoirse Ronan are…
Despite their success at the box office, all three of Sylvester Stollones blockbuster franchise – Rocky, RamboAnd The Expendables – Encountered the same problem several sequels down the line. After struggling to find work as an actor for years, Stallone made his own luck by writing the first Rocky Movie as a starring vehicle for itself. Not only did Rocky launch Stallone’s movie career; It made him an A-list star. He became the third person after Charlie Chaplin and Orson Welles to be Oscar-nominated for writing and starring in the same movie. Whereas many movie stars today rely on familiar…
“Ozymandias” is widely considered to be the greatest episode of Breaking bad’s five-season run – but there’s a little-known behind-the-scenes tidbit that makes it even better. Season 5, Episode 14, “Ozymandias,” is the jaw-dropping climax Breaking bad was built to from the beginning. It opens with a shootout in the desert that results in Jesse’s enslavement and Hank’s anxiety-inducing death, and it only gets more intense from there. This is the episode that brings Walter White’s criminal empire broken down as his family turns on him and he has to disappear with a new identity. To this day, “Ozymandias” is…
The first episode of Seinfeld is a pretty generic sitcom pilot with a lot of clichés, only a small handful of laughs, and just a sliver of the groundbreaking genius that would come in later seasons. Seinfeld Season 1, episode 1, “The Seinfeld Chronicles,” first aired on NBC on July 5, 1989, and it kicked off a historic nine-season run that would change the face of television comedy. Rewatching the ordinary, unspectacular pilot episode today, I found it hard to see it as the jumping-off point for one of the most timeless and revolutionary sitcoms ever made. Some sitcoms find…
Chris Evans’ 2017 drama movie Talented is a moving story about the difficulties of raising a child prodigy, but there are questions whether it is based on a true story or pure fiction. Seven years after its initial release in theaters, Talented became an unexpected streaming hit. Since arriving on Prime Video, Talented has landed in second place on the streaming charts, behind Amazon’s own blockbuster series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power But ahead of Zendaya’s tennis drama Challengers. in TalentedEvans stars as Frank Adler opposite McKenna Grace as Mary Adler, his ingenious seven-year-old niece who…
The boys has a new show set in Mexico, and the promise of this new spinoff will inevitably raise the stakes of the mainline series’ final season. Although The boys Conceived as a parody of the sprawling cinematic universes launched by Marvel and DC, mocking the studios’ longing to announce endless sequels and spinoffs to keep their brand alive, it ironically became popular enough to launch a sprawling cinematic universe of its own Own. The boys Has a few spinoffs in development as it heads into the final season. The college-set series Gen V returns for season 2 after its…
David Gordon Green’s 2018 reboot of the Halloween franchise — which kicked off Michael Myers’ most polarizing run in the series — is now available to stream on Netflix. 2018s Halloween Takes place 40 years after John Carpenter’s groundbreaking 1978 original and ignores every other sequel that came in between. It happens with a post-traumatic Laurie Strode, who is now a mother and grandmother and has been nervously waiting for Michael’s return for four decades. While being transferred to a maximum security prison, Michael escapes and heads back to Haddonfield for another gruesome killing spree on Halloween night. When it…
Ridley Scott’s polarizing 2012 blockbuster Prometheus Would have been much better received as a brand new sci-fi franchise than a tangential one Alien Prequel. Set around 30 years before the events of Scott’s original Alien movie, Prometheus Fills in the unseen origin story of the xenomorphs who terrorized Ellen Ripley. Although it was a box office success, grossing $403,354,469 worldwide against a budget of $130 million (via Box Office Mojo), Prometheus was met with a mixed response from critics and audiences. On Rotten Tomatoes, it has a good-not-great critics score of 73% and a certifiably divided audience score of 68%.…