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WTF Happened to Die Hard?

Posted 3 years ago

Chris One word that comes to mind when you hear the title Die Hard is “definitive.” After all, it’s widely considered star Bruce Willis’ definitive role. Still, it’s also, arguably, the definitive action movie and even the definitive Christmas movie...

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WTF Happened to Better Off Dead?

Posted 3 years ago

Chris Better Off Dead is one of two 1985 movies that marked John Cusack’s debut as a leading man. After small roles in Sixteen Candles and Class, Cusack, at only eighteen, nabbed the lead in Rob Reiner’s The Sure Thing,...

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WTF Happened to Pitch Black?

Posted 3 years ago

Chris Back in 2000, Vin Diesel was mostly unknown. Sure, he had an excellent role in Saving Private Ryan as the kindhearted but doomed soldier pinned down by sniper fire, but otherwise, he was pretty obscure. That changed when Pitch...

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WTF Happened to Beverly Hills Cop III?

Posted 4 years ago

Chris After decades in development, Beverly Hills Cop 4, which is officially titled Beverly Hills Cop: Axel Foley, is finally in production. Netflix is setting this up to be one of their big blockbusters for 2023, which is only fitting...

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WTF Happened to Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch?

Posted 4 years ago

Chris Before the SnyderVerse, Zack Snyder was one of Warner Bros’ most prominent directors, with him having helmed the wildly successful 300 and Watchmen. While the latter of these two movies didn’t set the world on fire in terms of...

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WTF Happened to No Country for Old Men?

Posted 4 years ago

Chris No Country for Old Men is one of the Coen Brothers most universally beloved and popular films. An adaptation of the novel by the legendary Cormac McCarthy, the film probably didn’t seem like a sure-fire box office smash when...

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WTF Happened to Donnie Darko?

Posted 4 years ago

Chris Richard Kelly’s Donnie Darko is a true cult film. Having premiered at Sundance back in 2001, it was released to theatres via a small company called Newmarket Films, and given that it opened in the wake of 9/11, it...

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WTF Happened to Deliverance?

Posted 4 years ago

Chris John Boorman’s Deliverance arguably has two signature scenes. One is harmless enough, the “duelling banjos” sequence where a young Ronny Cox goes up against a local banjo-picking country boy played by Billy Redden, although it has a foreboding end....

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WTF Happened to Hollywood Homicide?

Posted 4 years ago

Chris Hollywood Homicide came along during a lean time in Harrison Ford’s career. While What Lies Beneath had been a hit, the solo star vehicles the icon chose, including Random Hearts and K-19: The Widowmaker, were not connecting with audiences....

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