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Many actors have to deal with typecasting during their careers, and it tends to be a no-win situation for the actor and the audience. However, when an actor

Musicians delight and fascinate us with their antics both on and off stage. Unfortunately, the “sex, drugs and rock n’ roll” lifestyle often comes with a

These days, it feels like movie reboots and, more commonly, sequels are pretty much all we ever see in at the movie theater. Hollywood is so bereft of original ideas that a studio will just decide to take an idea that has proven successful and crap out additional iterations of what basically amounts to the same story over, and over, and over. Of course, some sequels are even more absurd than other

The desire for a mentor is deep-seated in the human race. Someone to teach hand-to-hand combat and ancient ninja skills so that we can go on to save the

Bad-asses in movies can take many different shapes and forms. Comic book movies offer villains such as Magneto, Loki and Zod (to kneel before). Horror movies on the other hand generally feature invincible killers, creepy ghost children and brain eating zombies. But then there are movies that disregard all the supernatural crap and simply pit scared shitless people against Mother Nature’s nastiest

We established in a previous article that comic book movies were: A) All the rage, B) Totally badass and C) Hiding a shameful, shameful past. And we’re not

Everyone loves a good super-villain. There's something about a madman in tights committing heinous acts of violence that everyone loves. Everyone also loves

We all love urban legends. The one about the guy with the hook for the hand who killed horny teenagers was popular. So was the one about the kid from the Life

There’s nothing more beautiful than the innocence of childhood. Naturally, Hollywood is doing everything in their power to exploit the few positive memories

We’re living in a culture where half of what we say seems to come from television or the movies. At some points it feels like there are precious few original thoughts being delivered in every day conversation, and quoting movies promotes a sort of kinship, and an inside joke with other people who are thinking to themselves, “Yes, I, too, have seen and enjoy that movie.” It’s just a shame that when