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5 Stars Like Harrison Ford And McConaughey Before Their Big Break
Many people have probably wondered: Why does everyone know Matthew McConaughey? The easy answer is that he’s an established actor, known for countless memorable roles. But becoming someone everyone recognizes didn’t happen overnight. How did Benedict Cumberbatch end up becoming Doctor Strange? How did Harrison Ford go from a young actor to Han Solo? Before…
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5 Gags That Make Madagascar’s Venice Escape Spiral Into Chaos
The penguins have never lacked confidence, even when their plans are falling apart in real time. That is especially true during the Venice chase in Penguins of Madagascar, where Skipper, Kowalski, Rico, and Private escape Dave’s henchmen through the canals before their getaway spills onto the streets. For nearly six minutes, the movie keeps finding…
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5 Things to Spot in Young Clint Eastwood’s First Movie Scene
Long before Clint Eastwood became synonymous with Westerns and tough crime dramas, he was popping up for a few moments in a laboratory in Revenge of the Creature. The 1955 sequel gave the young actor his first movie appearance, and watching it now feels almost like catching a familiar face before the rest of the…
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5 Details That Make Back to the Future a 1985 Time Capsule
Back to the Future spends plenty of time showing us what 1955 looks like through Marty McFly’s eyes, but its version of 1985 has become a time capsule of its own. That is especially clear when Marty returns home and discovers that changing his parents’ past has completely transformed the McFly family he left behind.…
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5 Facts Behind Ethan Hawke’s Changing Mask in The Black Phone
Ethan Hawke spends much of The Black Phone with his face hidden, which sounds like a strange way to use an actor who can do so much with a look. Instead, the mask became one of the reasons his performance as the Grabber is so memorable. And it is not really one mask at all.…
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5 Back to the Future II Gadgets We Still Wish Were Real
Back to the Future Part II was released in 1989, but its version of 2015 had no interest in being subtle. Marty McFly arrives in a future filled with flying cars, self-adjusting clothes, and toys that make a skateboard suddenly look hopelessly old-fashioned. Some of those ideas eventually became real in one form or another,…
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5 Behind-the-Scenes Secrets From the Gill-Man’s Famous Swim Scene
Few moments in Creature from the Black Lagoon are as memorable as Kay Lawrence swimming peacefully through the lagoon while the Gill-Man follows beneath her. The 1954 scene is simple on the surface, but pulling it off required two doubles, an uncomfortable creature suit and some clever underwater problem-solving. Much of the sequence was filmed…
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5 Ways John Goodman Makes The Big Lebowski’s Bad Plan Even Worse
Walter Sobchak has a way of making every problem feel much bigger than it was before he arrived. In The Big Lebowski (1998), John Goodman turns that quality into the driving force behind one of the movie’s funniest detours, when Walter and the Dude track down teenager Larry Sellers over what they believe happened to…
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5 Reasons Everyone Loves the Minions in Despicable Me 2
It is hard to imagine the Despicable Me franchise without the Minions, but they were never meant to be the main attraction. They first appeared in Despicable Me in 2010 as Gru’s loyal and chaotic henchmen, quickly becoming breakout characters in their own right. By Despicable Me 2 in 2013, they were already a major…
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5 Signs Al Pacino’s Old Life Is Pulling Him Back in Carlito’s Way
Carlito Brigante has only been out of prison for a short time when Carlito’s Way (1993) starts testing whether he can really leave his old life behind. In this early sequence, Al Pacino takes Carlito from a crowded nightclub back into his old neighborhood, where nearly everyone he meets expects the same man they knew…