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7 Movie Tricks That Make Death Feel So Different in Puss in Boots
Puss usually treats danger like he has an audience. He grins, poses, talks himself up, and assumes he’ll come out looking good. But The Wolf is the first character in The Last Wish (2022) who simply isn’t impressed, and you can feel Puss running out of his usual moves as their conversation goes on. There…
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Dragon The Bruce Lee Story and 7 Secret Moves Delivered Lee-Style
A 1993 martial arts biopic about Bruce Lee had to capture one of the greatest cultural icons of the 20th century, and the behind-the-scenes journey to bring Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story to the big screen turned out to be just as dramatic as the movie itself. 1. Jason Scott Lee Had Zero Martial Arts…
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7 Details Behind the Gladiator Training Montage in Spartacus
The training montage in Spartacus (1960) moves fast enough to make the Capua school feel like a machine. Kirk Douglas is pushed through exhausting drills, used as a living anatomy chart, watched by guards, mocked by Marcellus, and finally tested in practice combat. Behind those few minutes is a surprising amount of production history. Saul…
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6 Clint Eastwood High Plains Drifter Untold Movie Gems
Released in 1973 as Clint Eastwood’s first time directing a Western, High Plains Drifter became a massive box office hit and earned lasting critical acclaim as a dark, genre-bending masterpiece. Some of these behind-the-scenes movie gems might sound familiar, while others reveal a whole new side to the film. Grab a bucket of popcorn and…
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7 Facts About Child’s Play 2 That Make Chucky Even More Iconic
Released in 1990, Child’s Play 2 brought Chucky back for another round, with Alex Vincent returning as Andy Barclay and Brad Dourif once again providing the voice of the infamous Good Guy doll. Directed by John Lafia, the sequel expanded the world of the original with a new setting, new characters, and plenty of behind-the-scenes…
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10 Secrets Behind Eddie Murphy’s Nutty Professor Transformation
Eddie Murphy disappears so completely into Sherman Klump in The Nutty Professor (1996) that it is easy to forget how much work went into making the character possible. The transformation was not simply a costume and a few facial pieces. Makeup artist Rick Baker and his crew rebuilt Murphy’s appearance from his face down to…
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10 Photos of American Coastal Summer 1976 Before Jaws Arrived
When Steven Spielberg’s Jaws arrived in theaters on June 20, 1975, it changed the way audiences looked at the ocean. The 27-year-old director turned Peter Benchley’s bestselling novel into a phenomenon that helped define the modern summer blockbuster. The film earned four Academy Award nominations and won three, for Film Editing, Original Score, and Sound.…
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Unknown Facts About the 1970 Apollo 13 Space Launch
On April 11, 1970, three brave astronauts strapped themselves into a giant Saturn V rocket, preparing to embark on NASA’s third lunar landing mission. While millions of viewers remember the iconic 1995 blockbuster starring Tom Hanks, the real-life launch of Apollo 13 was an extraordinary historical event packed with unbelievable tension, sudden crew replacements, and…
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10 Secrets Behind The Birds’ Surprisingly Flirty Opening
Before The Birds (1963) becomes terrifying, it spends a surprising amount of time behaving like a romantic comedy. Melanie Daniels walks into a San Francisco pet shop, Mitch Brenner recognizes her, and instead of introducing himself, he decides to see how long she’ll pretend to know anything about birds. That whole stretch depends on Tippi…
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10 Details That Make The Breakfast Club a 1985 Time Capsule
The Breakfast Club (1985) is remembered for its characters and conversations, but watching it now also means spending nearly two hours inside a very specific version of teenage life. The clothes, music, school interiors, and even the way five bored students kill time all feel unmistakably mid-1980s. That quality is especially strong because John Hughes…