This Is Sean Connery’s Most Underrated Movie
The Big Picture Sean Connery's most underrated film, The Offence, was only made as part of a deal to get him to return as James Bond in Diamonds Are Forever. The Offence showcases one of Connery's best performances, as he…
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10 Behind-The-Scenes Facts That Haunted The Cast
As we're still at the beginning of the spooky season, we're still celebrating how impactful the horror genre is. One movie that transformed the horror genre entirely was none other than The Exorcist. While it has been 50 years since…
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The Most Intense Moment of Alfred Hitchcock’s Movies Isn’t the One You Think
The Big Picture Despite its banal aesthetic and mixed reviews, Alfred Hitchcock's film Rope may be one of his best offerings. The film is based on a true story, reminiscent of the infamous Leopold and Loeb case, where intellectuals commit…
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Why Critics and Audiences Are So Divided With Netflix’s Latest Thriller, Explained
One of Netflix’s newest films, Fair Play, has been met with mixed feelings among critics and audiences. Its Rotten Tomatoes score sits at 87% while its audience score rests at a much lower 51%, and it’s easy to see why.…
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‘The Exorcist’s Alternate Ending Changes the Movie’s Meaning
The Big Picture David Gordon Green's The Exorcist: Believer struggled with negative reviews and average audience reception, continuing the franchise's history of disappointment. The original 1973 version of The Exorcist is considered a horror classic and created a new subgenre,…
Read moreHow Each Sequel Compares to The Original
Ever since the emergence of the horror genre in cinema in the 1920s, with titles like The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Nosferatu, audiences have been both fascinated and unsettled by elements such as grisly mysterious murders, creepy Gothic castles,…
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Where’s the Other Friday the 13th Movie Tom McLoughlin Wanted To Make?
The Big Picture Jason Never Dies, the unmade seventh film in the Friday the 13th franchise, continues to haunt fans' dreams, with its title suggesting it would have carried the same swagger as Jason Lives. Despite the success of Jason…
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How Italians Learned to Love The Godfather
Summary The Godfather unintentionally became a love letter to Italian Americans, making them look tough and principled, despite real-life mobsters being street thugs. Paramount faced backlash and threats from the mafia for making a movie about them, but the film's…
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Beyond the Screen #39 – Exorcist Believer’s Horrifying Opening
The Exorcist: Believer represents the first in a planned trilogy built around the pea-soup spewing premise of the 1973 classic, sold on being set within the same ‘universe’ and sharing all of two (2) cast members, though scathing reviews indicate…
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How Three Actors Took Over for Heath Ledger’s Final Performance
The Big Picture The tragic death of Heath Ledger during the filming of The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus could have caused the project to shut down, but the director came up with a clever idea to recast Ledger's character with…
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Plot, Cast, Release Date, and Everything Else We Know
After two back-to-back K-drama sensations, Healer and The K2, Ji Chang Wook took a break from action dramas because the stunts he does on a regular basis were taking a toll on his body. Nonetheless, the actor thrived in romance…
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Film Review: ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’- A Modern American Masterpiece
With its emotionally epic story, sprawling cast, and an undying ambitious vision from one of American Cinema’s true masters, “Killers of the Flower Moon” (an adaptation of David Grann’s 2017 true-crime bestseller) gives Martin Scorsese a late-career masterwork. This is…
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