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For one reason or another, most people have been between jobs at some point and experienced the frustration, uncertainty, and various problems that come with unemployment....
When adapting books and comics into movies, certain changes must be made to accommodate the new medium. While fans sometimes bristle at plotlines and characters being...
Oh, how the mighty have fallen. The return of a beloved TV show should be a happy occasion. On top of letting old fans see their...
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With the popularity of films centering on monsters, aliens, and animal-human hybrids, it is inevitable that a genre of interspecies romance would emerge. Films that portray...
Although Western films are no longer in their heyday—the Western cinematic gold rush lasted from the mid-1940s to the mid-1960s—they’re still much loved. Gone are the...
It’s second nature for any filmmaker worth their salt to pack their movies with themes that contextualize and expand upon the action on screen. Still, humble...
The comic book-to-movie adaptation is far from a fine art. In this hero-centric cinematic world, moviemakers and actors are inclined to bend the rules and break...
Anyone who has competed in track and field at any level knows it’s easy to start out strong. What’s much more difficult is maintaining that initial...
So much goes into making a television show or a movie. Screenwriters produce polished scripts, and then directors and producers polish them even more. And that’s...
Casting comic book characters onto the big (or small) screen is tricky. Unlike regular novels, these superpowered stories come with vivid illustrations of every plot beat....
Catchphrases are common in many TV shows—from Joey asking “How you doin’?” in Friends to McGarrett’s “Book ’em, Danno” in Hawaii Five-O. Some catchphrases have even...
Some films make headlines for their box office earnings. Others do it for the chaos they leave in their wake. From mass fainting and audience brawls...
Many popular celebrities today started as child actors and are still finding success in Hollywood, but other former child actors chose to step away from the...
Artificial intelligence usually strikes fear in people’s hearts. The concept of other sentient life forms is daunting enough; having those life forms be computerized entities adds...