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WTF Happened to Losin’ It?

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Chris Pop quiz – what’s the most obscure Tom Cruise movie? If you’re thinking Lions for Lambs or maybe Far and Away, or even my beloved All the Right Moves, you’re wrong. Tom Cruise’s most obscure movie ever is, without...

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WTF Happened to Django Unchained?

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Steve Many consider Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained one of the best contemporary Westerns in recent memory. Featuring Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington, and Samuel L. Jackson, Tarantino’s tribute to Spaghetti Westerns is a revenge tale as stylish as it...

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WTF Happened to A Christmas Story?

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Chris Last week, we looked at WTF Happened to the cast of A Christmas Story in a special yuletide edition of WTF Happened to this Celebrity. This week, we’re digging back into Bob Clark’s 1983 classic, A Christmas Story, and...

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WTF Happened to Die Hard?

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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?

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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?

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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?

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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?

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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?

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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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