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  The mullet is, without question, the world’s most glorious haircut. It combines a classic clean-cut top with a devil may care, rock n’ roll bottom, making for a combination that just screams, I’m the coolest guy here and I don’t care who knows it. The mullet undoubtedly reached its peak of popularity in the […]

  Kevin Costner keeps a fairly low profile these days. Sure, he stars on the TV series Yellowstone and he’ll pop up in a low or mid-budget movie once or twice a year, but he’s not exactly one of Hollywood’s most in-demand stars. But there was a time when it seemed Costner could do no […]

  Shakespeare is a literary legend, and is arguably the most famous writer of all time. So naturally, his works have inspired many, many movie adaptations. From straight portrayals of the Bard’s plays to more creative reimaginings, it’s hard to imagine there ever coming a day when Hollywood no longer looks to Shakespeare for inspiration. […]

  Comedy is hard. Making a comedy sequel is doubly hard. Part of what makes things funny is when something unexpected happens. If you watch someone walk by you carrying a cake, you expect them to continue unabated to their destination. But if they trip and faceplant into said cake, leaving them with a face […]

  Jamie Lee Curtis has had a long and storied Hollywood career. And if there’s one thing she’s shown a knack for with her acting, it’s kicking butt. A veteran of both the action and horror genres, Curtis has had her fair share of badass moments on the big screen, but a few of them […]

  The mob movie genre is one of the most prestigious in all of cinema. Its films frequently rank among the best of all-time, with such standouts as The Godfather, Goodfellas, and many others. But there’s a subgenre of mob movies that doesn’t get nearly the amount of respect it deserves, and that’s the mob […]

  Before she became Mrs. Neil Young, actress Daryl Hannah was Hollywood’s unofficial Queen of Fantasy Comedy. Throughout her first two full decades in show business, Hannah starred in an unusually high number of fantasy comedy films. The fantasy comedy genre really isn’t all that common of a movie style, and yet, Hannah found the […]

  In many ways, there is no more challenging type of film to make than a dark comedy. Making a comedy is notoriously difficult to begin with (just think of how many more unfunny comedies there are than funny ones), but when you’re trying to make an audience laugh at material that they don’t want […]

  Kirk Douglas passed away on February 5, 2020 at the age of 103, and with him went the last surviving piece of Hollywood’s Golden Age. Douglas reached the peak of his stardom in the 1950s and 1960s, when movie stars — not franchises — still reigned supreme at the box office. His contemporaries were […]

  Robert De Niro is undeniably one of his generation’s greatest actors. Ask most film buffs for a rundown of De Niro’s best movies, and they’ll undoubtedly offer up a list that includes all-time classic films like Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Casino, Cape Fear, and The King of Comedy. And do you know what […]