John Wayne had a great farewell in his final film, The shooterbut a different western at the end of his career – 1972 The cowboys — would have been an even better swan song for the Hollywood icon. There are many legendary actors who have left their mark on the Western genre, from Clint Eastwood to James Stewart, but no actor is more intrinsically linked to the Western than Wayne. Wayne starred in classic westerns such as Red River, Rio Bravoand The Comancheros. Wayne initially made a name for himself playing sharp heroes who spring into action and defeat the…
Author: Ben Sherlock
Neo has a multitude of powers in The Matrix films, from flight to telekinesis, but what these powers are, how he controls them and how he acquired these powers gets quite complicated. When the public is first introduced to Neo Headquarters film, he’s a bored office drone named Thomas Anderson. But the character is best known by his hacker alias, “Neo,” which becomes the name he uses when he is freed from the Matrix and brought into the real world to rage against the machines. When Neo takes the red pill and wakes up in the real world, he is…
Marty McFly never tells his parents that he traveled back in time to reunite them. Back to the futurebut George had more than enough clues to piece it together. When Marty goes back in time and unintentionally bumps into his parents, he doesn’t tell them that he is their son from the future. Lorraine assumes his name is Calvin Klein because it’s written on his underwear, and he just moves on. He pretended Doc Brown was his “Uncle Doctor”And he made sure his parents fell in love without revealing that he came from the future. But Marty didn’t do a…
The teacher’s biggest comeback Wednesday The first season was taken directly from Professor Quirrell’s big twist in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. Wednesday Addams has been an iconic character for decades, but Jenna Ortega’s performance in the Netflix spin-off series introduced her to a new generation and took her to a whole new level of iconography. When Wednesday The first season premiered on the streaming service in 2022, quickly amassed a massive fan base, and became one of Netflix’s most-watched original shows. Wednesday is the last installment of the long term Addams Family franchise, and borrows heavily from previous…
Warning: this article contains spoilers Gladiator 2. Gladiator 2 gives her fictional character Lucilla a much more meaningful and impactful ending than her real-life counterpart in the history books. Lucilla is one of the only main characters in the first Gladiator film will reappear in Gladiator 2 cast. The original actress, Connie Nielsen, returned to play the character at a very different stage in her life. In the first film, Lucilla struggled to balance raising her son Lucius with managing the responsibilities of her political power and fending off unwanted sexual advances from her brother, Commodus. In Gladiator 2Lucilla remarries…
Milhouse voice actress Pamela Hayden is retiring, but The Simpsons has proven that it can recast this iconic character instead of writing him out of the series entirely. Hayden, who also voices other beloved characters like Rod Flanders and Jimbo Jones, has announced that he is retiring from voice acting at age 70. She appeared in around 695 episodes of the classic animated series and now, after 35 years, she’s ready to hang. above. Hayden’s retirement from The Simpsons marks the end of an era. Now, producers of The Simpsons are presented with a choice. They could retire the Milhouse…
Three of James Bond the films were remakes of previous Bond films, and these remakes include some of 007’s best (and worst) on-screen adventures. Remaking previous Bond films may start to become more common in the franchise’s next iterations, because producers are running out of Ian Fleming stories to adapt. As few Bond films have really stuck to the source material that gave them their titles, the next incarnation of the Bond series could see Eon returning and adapting Fleming’s novels more faithfully. But Eon (and other producers) have been re-adapting Fleming’s works long before they ran out of new…
Zara died the worst and most terrible death in all of history. Jurassic Park franchise when she was killed in Jurassic Worldand movies still haven’t come close to surpassing it. THE Jurassic Park the series has been horribly killing off its characters since the beginning. In the first film, bloodsucking lawyer Donald Gennaro was eaten in the bathroom by a T. rex and Dennis Nedry was splashed with the venom of a Dilophosaurus in his car. The franchise wouldn’t make the most of its dinosaur-infested premise if the dinosaurs didn’t kill people in every other scene. Part of the fun…
Warning: this article contains spoilers Gladiator 2. The final scene of Gladiator 2 leave the door open for Gladiator 3and Ridley Scott has already discussed some of his tantalizing ideas for the potential trio. The original Gladiator was a perfectly told standalone story that could have stood on its own merits without a sequel. The only reason to make a sequel was that the first film thematically explores the concept of legacy and the implications of today’s actions on tomorrow (“What we do in this life echoes in eternity”). Gladiator 2 it is only tangentially connected to the original, retroactively…
THE Clerks saga presents itself as a great trilogy, but some of its films are better than others. Over three decades, Kevin Smith made three Clerks films. He began his film career with the independent original, released in 1994, and then revisited the fan-favorite characters in 2006. Clerks II before concluding its story in 2022 with Clerks III. The heart of the trilogy is the loving friendship shared by Dante Hicks and Randal Graves. The first two films focus on his everyday antics at work, while the final chapter is about his efforts to immortalize these antics on film. Clerks…