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The story behind Psycho, Alfred Hitchcock’s most popular movie and a cinematic masterpiece, has a good deal of drama built into it. Once he decided he would adapt Robert Bloch’s gruesome book into a film, the esteemed director ...
We’re not sure how 1984’s Red Dawn became a cult hit. The film’s cold war theme undoubtedly played into popular fears about a Soviet invasion. And the fact that a group of fearless teens survive and give the communists some ser...
When the first James Bond film was released, it was at the height of the Cold War, which created incredible tension between the Western World and the Soviet Union and its communist allies. In this context, it made sense that We...
Based on the James Patterson novel Cross, Alex Cross is a shoddily made, half-assed attempt to bring back the fictional character that Morgan Freeman portrayed in two previous films. After bad dialogue, the real problem is the ...
When the thriller Taken came out four years ago, star Liam Neeson wasn’t quite believable as Bryan Miller, an ex-CIA operative who still kicks some serious ass. Now 60, Neeson struggles even more in Taken 2, a sequel that finds...
Look, we’re just as surprised as you. A teen musical is not very 40-something hipster and we went into it convinced the whole show choir thing was as tired of a premise as vampires. And, it’s a pretty predictable young love sto...