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17 Times Someone Won an Oscar for the Wrong Movie
It’s a truth universally accepted that the Oscars doesn’t always (or even often) get it right. While there are some truly head-scratching victors among the ranks of Academy Award winners, it’s also true that Oscar often likes to play catch-up, rewarding filmmakers and actors for late-career work when they probably should have won for something…
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50 of the Most Controversial Films Ever Made
Hated, dogged, scandalous, sordid, nasty — these movies have been called all of those things, and much worse. Many have inspired death threats and physical attacks, while others have engendered heated wars of words that have lasted decades.
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10 of the Biggest Acting Comebacks After a Scandal
It’s tempting to call it the slap heard ‘round the world, except that quick-thinking production techs silenced the moment when Will Smith struck Chris Rock at the 94th Academy Awards (somehow just six months ago). There’s no need to relitigate the incident, nor to reignite the discourse that dominated the news and social media for…
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25 Book-to-Movie Adaptations to Read up on for 2022
As much as we love our screens — and we passionately love our screens — it’s good to remember that basically everything you watch on those screens begins with the written word, whether a screenplay or, yes, a book.