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Messed up things you never noticed in your favorite '80s movies

Bill Murray in Ghostbusters If you spend enough time thinking about the specific details of hit movies, it becomes easy to get accused of reading too much into things. Movies want to steer us in specific narrative directions. If we're watching, for example, an exciting car chase, we're not supposed to think about all the nameless civilians whose cars are getting totaled during the pursuit. We're not supposed to stop to wonder if our favorite heroes are indirectly killing dozens of innocent civilians in pursuit of the bad guy. And if we start talking about it with our friends, we're often me...

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The Office fans can now experience the series in a whole new way

The Office castNBC If you've ever wanted to work at Dunder Mifflin, now's your chance. Some enterprising fans of NBC's The Office, who make up a creative collective called MSCHF, have set up an Office Slack that recreates your favorite episodes off screen. MSCHF posts in various channels and threads, running through the episodes' scripts, and will perform all 201 episodes of The Office over Slack -- allowing fans to watch in real time and relive episodes like "The Injury" and "Office Olympics." Over the course of nine seasons, The Office told the story of the Scranton, Pennsylvania branch o...

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Antony Starr as Homelander on The boysAmazon Studios

The absolute worst thing Homelander ever did in The Boys comics

Homelander takes the Muller family for a ride in The Boys issue #47Dynamite Entertainment/Russ Braun/Garth Ennis Amazon Studios' stylized, beyond-graphic superhero series The Boys is a mere eight episodes old, and if there's one thing to which fans of the show can attest, it's that superheroes really aren't what they used to be. In fact, more often than not, The Boys depicts its "supers" as the worst kind of megalomaniacs, typically using their largely unchecked powers to inflict all manner of brutality on their enemies, their allies, and humanity, itself. Simply put, The Boys doesn't just ...

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Sasha Alexander as Dr. Maura Isles and Angie Harmon as Jane Rizzoli in Rizzoli & IslesTNT

What the actor who played Kate on NCIS has been doing since leaving the show

Sasha Alexander as Kate Todd in NCISCBS NCIS Special Agent Kate Todd (Sasha Alexander) was a fixture of everyone's favorite Naval investigative show from the start — until she was unceremoniously gunned down at the end of the second season. It emerged that the real reason Sasha Alexander left NCIS after season 2 was because the actress was feeling burned out by the long hours the series required. She told TV Guide in 2012 that at the time, she'd worried that the demanding workload was interfering with her chance to have a personal life, and holding her back from working on other projects. W...

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The cast of Everybody Wants Some!! led by Blake Jenner as Jake BradfordParamount Pictures

Dazed and Confused 2 happened and barely anyone noticed

Matthew McConaughey as Wooderson and Wiley Wiggins as Mitch in Dazed and Confused Gramercy Pictures Did you even realize that Richard Linklater's 1993 teen classic Dazed and Confused had a spiritual sequel? It'd be a lot cooler if you did. In an interview with The Daily Beast, Linklater waxed nostalgic about his 25-year history with the Sundance Film Festival, held annually in snowy Park City, Utah. He appeared at the festival most recently in 2016 to add his commentary to a special screening of Dazed and Confused, his iconic homage to the first day of summer in suburban Texas. "It doesn't ...

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Neve Campbell talks to Ghostface in Scream 4Dimension Films

Neve Campbell gives an intriguing update on Scream 5

Neve Campbell as Sidney Prescott in ScreamDimension Films The first three Scream movies came out back to back, but when a fourth didn't immediately follow, fans of the franchise assumed the disappointing Scream 3 would be the final bloody act for Neve Campbell's scream queen Sidney Prescott. That was, of course, until Scream 4 hit theaters a decade later. The fourth installment not only managed to bring series' stars Neve Campbell, Courtney Cox, and David Arquette back into the fold, but it also took the franchise in a new direction and delivered a story that felt like a fresh update while ...

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Marvel superheroes you may not realize have super parents

Josh Brolin as CableFox Everybody's got parents, even Marvel superheroes. And while we're all familiar with father/son relationships like the one between Howard and Tony Stark, not every superhero family tree is so well-known. In fact, there are quite a few superheroes out there with incredibly powerful parents, and we're not just talking about Thor and Odin. We're talking about famous vampire hunters, time-traveling cyborgs, and parasitic monsters, but for one reason or another, their parentage has never been explored on-screen. After all, there's only so much backstory you can get into wh...

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You've been playing these Final Fantasy 7 Remake characters all wrong

Final Fantasy 7 Remake Cloud With the launch of Final Fantasy 7 Remake in April 2020, Square Enix has delivered the gorgeous, high-definition version of its most iconic RPG hinted at since the early days of the PlayStation 3. This isn't just a beat-by-beat rehash of the original PlayStation adventure, though. A lot has been changed, added, or altered in this fresh take on Cloud Strife's unforgettable story. Rather than playing out in a classic turn-based RPG format, fights in Final Fantasy 7 Remake are real-time and filled with stylish action. Cloud Strife, Barret Wallace, Tifa Lockhart, an...

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Ryan Reynolds as Green Lantern in Green LanternWarner Bros.

Rob Liefeld makes bold suggestion about Ryan Reynolds' Deadpool future

Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool in Deadpool20th Century Studios Deadpool creator Rob Liefeld has a pretty unorthodox take on Ryan Reynolds' future as a comic book star, and we're guessing most fans aren't likely to agree. Liefeld has been carving out quite a bit of cognitive space between himself and Reynolds, recently - especially when it comes to Reynolds' future with the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Last week, the legendary creator went off on Disney and Marvel Studios for what he sees as their mishandling of the Deadpool franchise, recently repatriated to the MCU as a result of the 2019 merger ...

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Why the Altered Carbon sword fight means more than you think

Dichen Lachman as Reileen Kawahara on Altered Carbon during sword fight sceneNetflix Altered Carbon has bravely and brazenly taken up the banner of cyberpunk tropes and cybernoir aesthetics, reworking them into something that fans have graciously devoured. In a future where the wealthy (known as "Meths" on the Netflix series) can be resleeved into new bodies (clones, essentially), criminal underworlds collide against religious dogmatists in a hail of gunfire, shattered glass, and, of course, nudity and blood. All of these elements come together towards the end of season 1, on episode 8, "Cl...

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A major character will reportedly be bisexual in The Batman

Fan art of Robert Pattinson as BatmanJohn Regan/Instagram Time to fire up the old DC rumor mill once again. Those gossip hounds at We Got This Covered are citing their ever-mysterious anonymous sources in reporting that a major character in writer-director Matt Reeves' upcoming The Batman will be depicted as bisexual. That character: Selina Kyle/Catwoman, who will be played by Zoë Kravitz. It's worth noting that, although this rumor is hot off the press, production on The Batman has been in a holding pattern for quite some time due to the coronavirus outbreak. It's still unknown at what poi...

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Hamilton fans just got incredible news

Lin-Manuel Miranda and the cast of HamiltonSara Krulwich/The New York Times Hamilton isn't throwing away its shot — or, at the very least, it's not waiting until the fall any more. A surprise announcement came courtesy of Disney on May 12, with Deadline reporting that the filmed version of Hamilton that features the Tony Award-winning original cast, including creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, will be available to stream exclusively on Disney+ on July 3. Originally, the film was slated for a theatrical release on October 15, 2021 but, in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, most theatrical releases h...

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The real reason these popular '90s teen shows were canceled

Luke Perry Every generation of American teenagers has its own movies, music, and TV shows — stuff that becomes cultural touchstones if not influential classics in the decades that follow. Teens in the '60s teens had the Beatles, '80s teens had John Hughes movies, and '90s teens could be entertained by or empathize with the many characters their age who dominated television of the era. It was a golden age for teen TV, with sitcoms, soaps, dramas, cartoons, and even sci-fi exploring what it felt like to be not quite a kid while also not quite an adult. But alas, youth is fleeting and so is yo...

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Fans of The Mandalorian just got the best news ever about season 2

Pedro Pascal and Gina Carano on The MandalorianDisney/Lucasfilm The first thought on most people's minds when they finished season 1 of Disney+'s spectacular Star Wars series The Mandalorian was, "When does the next season come out?" From the thrilling, Western-inspired story to the absurdly cute Baby Yoda, the list of things fans can't wait to see more of could fill a Star Wars opening crawl. Considering the show's popularity, it's no surprise that The Mandalorian got quickly picked up for a second season. Of course, these days, an order for another season has a bit of a nebulous meaning. ...

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Everything the Resident Evil movies get wrong about the games

resident evil, re, movies, game, franchise, series The Resident Evil movies are infamous among gamers and moviegoers alike. But the franchise — directed by Paul W.S. Anderson — plays fast and loose with its source material. The movies feature a who's who of famous Resident Evil faces, but they barely resemble their digital counterparts. More importantly, the movie continuity is malleable and important plot points in one movie are forgotten in the next, if not radically altered to fit a new narrative. Needless to say, the Resident Evil movies get a lot wrong about the video games, from simpl...

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What the actor who played Sweets on Bones has been doing since the show ended

John Francis Daley as Dr. Lance Sweets on Bones From 2007 to 2014, Bones' Dr. Lance Sweets graced the halls of the Jeffersonian as their psychologist on demand, providing insight from his behavioral profiling training and a sympathetic ear for his cohorts when the job put too much pressure on them. Then, like a bolt out of the blue on the very first episode of Bones season 10, Sweets got himself shot and killed because he asked too many questions about Agent Booth's framing and unjust imprisonment. The good doctor and giant nerd was a favorite amongst the Bones crew, and many were sad to se...

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The untold truth of Scorn

scorn, xbox series x, microsoft, ebb software, trailer If you tuned in to Microsoft's recent Xbox Series X reveal, you might have caught a glimpse of a little trailer for a game titled Scorn. This game's biomechanical hellscape looks like something ripped from the mind of H.R. Giger -- almost as if the developers at Ebb Software traveled back in time to recruit the late, great painter. Described as an "atmospheric first-person horror adventure," Scorn is one of the Xbox Series X's most promising — and most disturbing — launch titles. And if the trailer piqued your interest, you probably wan...

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Why the lightsaber fights in Star Wars mean more than you think

David Prowse and Alec Guinness in Star Wars. Lucasfilm Star Wars fans fixate on any number of the franchise's technical aspects, from its breakthrough visual effects to the respective power levels of each Force user. The lightsaber fights in particular — from the fight choreography to the weapons themselves — have become an iconic and much obsessed-over element of the universe. But during the second episode of the eight-part Disney+ docuseries Disney Gallery: The Mandalorian, director Dave Filoni explained how the flashiest parts of one of sci-fi's most beloved stories can also serve to ill...

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The stool bus, a creation of Tirdy Works star Mary Winchenbach

The untold truth of Tirdy Works

Mary Winchenbach of Tirdy Works fame The newest reality series on truTV follows an entrepreneur from rural Maine with a job that quite literally stinks. IMDb generously describes the aptly-titled Tirdy Works as "An off-kilter look at entrepreneurship, parenthood and life told through the eyes of artist Mary Winchenbach and her family." What that description doesn't tell you is that Winchenbach's "art" involves crafting collected moose turds into various decorations, toys and home goods. You read that right: Mary Winchenbach is the world's most famous poop sculptor. It all started with a har...

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Every Tremors movie ranked worst to best

Fred Ward and Kevin Bacon in Tremors At the dawn of the 1990s, creature features were largely considered B-movie fare. Sure, they were fun and occasionally funny, but most movie fans didn't really pay them any attention. But that all changed when director Ron Underwood decided to play with the genre. As a result, we got a zany masterpiece about subterranean beasts facing off against a wily band of small-town yokels, complete with cool practical effects and Kevin Bacon. It was called Tremors, and with its release, Underwood and company essentially revived the creature comedy for an entire ge...

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The real reason these actors left the One Chicago franchise

Sophia Bush in Chicago P.D. "One Chicago" is the umbrella name for a series of interconnected NBC dramas that all take place in the same shared universe of a fictional inner-city Chicago, populated by a variety of heroic and hard-working first responders. Co-created and produced by Dick Wolf (who knows a bit about harrowing procedural television with his decades spent on NBC's Law & Order and its many spin-offs), the Chicago-verse began with the firefighter drama Chicago Fire in 2012. It would be joined by the police-centric Chicago P.D. in 2014, emergency room-based Chicago Med in 2015, an...

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John Ritter and Suzanne Somers on Three's CompanyABC

The real reason Suzanne Somers was fired from Three's Company

Suzanne Somers, John Ritter, and Joyce DeWitt in Three's CompanyABC In 1980, Suzanne Somers was arguably the most popular character on one of the most popular shows on television: Three's Company, which introduced the world at large to the comedic talents of John Ritter, and also gave us a theme song so catchy that we guarantee it's playing in your head right now. Somers' role on the series was likely never meant to be such a well-loved one; she played Chrissy Snow, the airheaded "blonde bimbo" who shared an apartment with roomates Janet (Joyce DeWitt) and Ritter's excellently named Jack Tr...

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The truth about Catherine Tate on The Office

Catherine Tate on The OfficeNBC Universal The Office might be one of the most beloved sitcoms of the last few decades, but that doesn't mean it didn't go through some serious growing pains as it neared the end of its nine-season run. Most notably, during the show's seventh season, Steve Carell left the show, leaving behind enormous shoes to fill. Carell had played the paper company's regional manager since the very beginning and, in his absence, The Office had two problems to solve: Who would replace him, and which character could become the new boss at Dunder Mifflin. Plenty of potential c...

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Scott Summers, AKA Cyclops, and his father, Christopher Summers, AKA Corsair

Cyclops' entire backstory explained

Scott Summers, AKA Cyclops, unleashing his optic blast Though the Wolverine-centric X-Men movies might not make it clear, Cyclops is one of Marvel's most important mutants. Defined by his signature visor, he is as powerful as he is tragic -- a Marvel hero of the purest sort. Cyclops' ability to fire optic blasts of pure concussive force makes him a force to be reckoned with, but it also keeps him from ever looking someone in the eye. He is as defined by the ways in which his powers limit him as he is by their tremendous applications. He is, in short, an X-Man: Spectacularly gifted, intracta...

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Ashleigh Cummings played guerilla fighter Robyn Mathers in Tomorrow, When The War Began.Ambience Entertainment

Why Vic from NOS4A2 looks so familiar

Ashleigh Cummings as Vic McQueen on NOS4A2AMC NOS4A2 is perfect binge fare, a supernatural story that doesn't ask its viewers for much. If you want to watch a green vampire hunter come to grips with the supernatural while trying to stop an immortal evil being, then it's just the ticket. While the plot is easy to follow and the world of Strong Creatives is deeply entertaining, one thing has lingered on viewers' minds: Where have I seen Vic before? The series' lead spends an entire season forging connections, be they portals from her hometown to other parts of the country or friendships with ...

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