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Thirty seconds into watching this video, my face already hurt from smiling too much. What you’re about to watch is a compilation of footage that shows what director George Miller actually shot on the set of 2015’s masterpiece Mad Max: Fury Road. And you will be amazed at how much was actually done, practically, on…
It’s wearing a little thin. With a little over a month before its release, Marvel has finally pulled the curtain back a bit on Doctor Strange. Reports from a recent set visit have been pouring in Tuesday, and all sorts of tidbits are coming to light about the movie: How its exploration of magic will…
Captain America finally gets his own Avengers movie. Wait… I mean… The Avengers finally show up to help out in one of their members’ solo films. Wait… Spider-Man finally doesn’t suck in a film about not-Spider-Man… wait… Here are the sins we found in Captain America: Civil War, a movie we didn’t love, but didn’t…
When Saturday Night Live announced that it was hiring its first ever Latina cast member last week, it was landmark moment in the history of the show. Mexican-American comedian Melissa Villaseñor, 28, is part of a minority that is sorely represented when it comes to the likes of mainstream comedy. Yet her recruiting already has…
The sequel to a film that received a middling response from critics and took in a modest (by blockbuster standards) box office, Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice was in a precarious position before reports of its ballooning budget started to make the news. After a string of expensive failures including Jupiter Ascending, The Man from…
Of all the movies in the Star Trek canon, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home is an outlier. It’s a total lark, a romp, a love letter to fans who just wanted to have a damn good time watching a Star Trek movie. After the heavy life-and-death themes of Star Treks II and III, it…
Photo: 2016 Getty Images Did you think The Man in the High Castle was going to be the only Nazi scandal rocking Hollywood over the past year? Not anymore! Michael Bay’s forthcoming Transformers outing, The Last Knight, is drawing criticism from numerous veteran groups after it was revealed that Winston Churchill’s birthplace — Blenheim Palace…
TMZ, headed by former lawyer Harvey Levin, has always excelled at exploiting legal documents to their advantage: They have a crew of bleary-eyed document scanners camped out at the Los Angeles Courthouse, combing through all manner of filings in order to find the bankruptcy rulings, arrest warrants, and divorce filings before any other site. Which,…
When Idiocracy was released in 2006, it didn’t make much of an impact upon the world. In fact, most people didn’t even know it existed. 20th Century Fox had a contractual obligation to release Mike Judge’s follow-up to Office Space, but they pretty much just tucked it away. After being sat on for more than…
Remember that 2006 movie Idiocracy? The one where Luke Wilson plays an average underachiever who wakes up 500 years in the future, only to realize that he’s now the smartest person on Earth? And everyone else is dumb — like, really dumb? Well, that movie is cruel and terrible and you should be ashamed for…