True Crime is a major genre in cinema, most likely because the heroes and villains are readily apparent. However, without a sure hand guiding the screenplay, these films can easily fall flat. The writer has to take a laundry list of facts and chronological events and from them shape a compelling dramatic conflict while (hopefully) […]
Author: Kyle Hintz
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20 Movie Roles That Would Have Been Great with Different Actors
Clint Eastwood and Dirty Harry. Sylvester Stallone and Rocky. Harrison Ford and Indiana Jones. These actors and the roles they’ve played have become synonymous. One cannot think of the fictional character without conjuring up the image of the actor. That is the power of brilliant casting. But, of course, that doesn’t always happen. Studios and […]
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15 Great Films That Were Butchered In Their Original Release
Filmmaking has always been, and will always be, a process of collaboration and compromise, due to the meeting of art and commerce. Inevitably conflicts will arise between those involved, sometimes to the benefit, but often to the detriment of the works being created. Hollywood’s history is rife with stories of behind-the-scenes’ ego clashing between producers, […]
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6 Reasons Why The Robocop Remake Doesn’t Suck
RoboCop (1987) is a classic science fiction film, satirizing the consumerism and the sleazy corporate ethics of the Reagan-era. Wildly popular in its day, it spawned two sequels, a live-action television series, a mini-series, and several video games, comic books, cartoons and action figures. And countless rip-offs of which the most recent is Fox’s “Almost […]
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14 Awesome Actors Who Need To Make A Comeback
Hollywood, and the world for that matter, is full of actors in various stages of their career, those just beginning, those gracefully bowing out of the spotlight and those looking to regain their past successes. Concerning the latter, not all of these actors have faded from view. Some have been typecast, some are doing lousy […]