There are just director-actor combos that seem to just go together. Alfred Hitchcock had Jimmy Stewart. John Ford and John Wayne. And Tim Burton and Johnny Depp. We’ve talked about their collaborations before with Ed Wood. 1999’s Sleepy Hollow is another one of their perfect pairings. It’
Hollywood is a copycat factory. If there’s a hit movie, you can guarantee there are going to be movies just like it in the years following its release. Raiders of the Lost Ark set the world on fire in 1981, so of course there were going to be clones.
There are times movies can represent the generational divide between audiences. 1984’s Sixteen Candles is one of them. Among its core Gen-X audience, it’s considered a classic. However, among Gen-Z on the internet, it’s considered a crime against humanity. John Hughes learned a lesson on
Before Marvel movies ruled the box office, Batman was the superhero every studio was trying to chase. Todd McFarlane created Spawn in 1992, and it only took Spawn five years to make it to theaters in 1997. Spawn is a marine killed in a double cross and makes a deal
Sometimes all a movie needs to do is be a great time. 1993’s Demolition Man fits that definition. It was Sylvester Stallone’s other big movie of the year, behind Cliffhanger, and was the lesser hit of the two. Wesley Snipes is at his over-the-top best as
1999 was a big year for the evolution of the teen comedy. You had 10 Things I Hate About You tricking young people into watching a Shakespeare adaptation, and Never Been Kissed having a student-teacher romance without all the baggage of how wrong that would be considered a couple
Neve Campbell would have two big movies in 1996. One you all know very well in Scream. The other came earlier in the year, with The Craft. It was a sleeper hit revolving around four teen girls turning to witchcraft to wipe away their perceived flaws. But they all learn
Let’s play a game of what if. What if someone said there’s this great movie about these musicians fighting for fame and trying to outdo each other, and one of them decides to kill the other one? You’d probably think it’s some modern rock thriller. Instead,
There are horror movies, and there are movies that will horrify you. 1980’s The Blue Lagoon falls into the latter category. A 14-year-old Brooke Shields and 18-year-old Christopher Atkins are two cousins shipwrecked alone on an island sometime in the late 1800s. The movie wants
There’s not any doubt Julia Roberts was the queen of the 90s box office. Her power was so strong, she could take on a villain role, and still somehow come off likeable. 1997’s My Best Friend’s Wedding has her looking to steal her male best friend of
1984 was a very crowded year for movies. Ghostbusters, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Gremlins, Star Trek III. So, it was inevitable movies were going to be missed. The Last Starfighter is one that got overlooked at the box office. It’s very 1984 in its plot, where
There are times when TV shows go beyond their medium and explode into something else entirely. For audiences of 2026, it’s hard to explain just how huge The X-Files were in the 90s. There’s nothing like it today, and the reboot of 2016 didn’t land with