Tag: Die Hard
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Bruce Willis Says ‘Die Hard’ Isn’t a Christmas Movie
If you’ve literally ever seen “Die Hard” referenced online or by a certain kind of movie buff out in the wild, you’re no doubt familiar with the argument that it’s not only a Christmas movie but one of the best of its kind. During his Comedy Central Roast last night, Bruce Willis set the record…
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‘Hotel Transylvania 3’ Wins The Weekend As ‘Skyscraper’ Crumbles At The Box Office
As this weekend approached, box office analysts predicted that the #1 spot would be a battle between the animated threequel “Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation” and Dwayne Johnson’s “Die Hard” knock-off “Skyscraper.” While ‘Hotel Transylvania’ did what was expected, “Skyscraper” ended up burning to the ground, so to speak.Coming in at #1, surprising no one,…
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Skyscraper review – Dwayne Johnson rocks in a highly enjoyable action film
A preposterous mashup of Die Hard and The Towering Inferno makes for a perfect summer blockbusterDwayne Johnson stars as the most badass amputee since Charlize Theron in Mad Max: Fury Road, in the movie mashup you never knew you wanted. Skyscraper is Die Hard meets The Towering Inferno, and it’s pretty much everything you could…
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Movie Talk: Will ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Break Summer Box Office Records?
On this episode of Collider Movie Talk, Mark Ellis, Mark Reilly, and John Rocha preview the entire 2018 summer movie season by discussing the following: The panel discusses Avengers: Infinity War and predicts what the opening weekend and final box office numbers will be for the movie. Will Deadpool 2 beat Solo: A Star Wars…
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‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’: Sterling K. Brown Is Even Better as a Villain Than He Is at Being a Hero
[Editor’s note: The following contains spoilers for “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” Season 5, Episode 11, “The Box.”]Jake Peralta, Andy Samberg’s renegade goofy police officer on “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” is a character that has always been built on intuition and a sharp appreciation of action movies. The cop movies Peralta grew up idolizing often lead him astray, but there’s…
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Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige Set to Speak at Produced By Conference
Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige has been selected as a speaker for the 10th Annual Produced By Conference at Paramount Studios on June 9-10.The Producers Guild of America announced Thursday the headlining sessions, which include “Conversation With: Samantha Bee & Jason Jones,” “Conversation With: Kevin Feige,” “Conversation With: Jim Gianopulos,” “Larry Gordon: Uncensored,” and the…
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The Titan review – unexciting Netflix sci-fi squanders its premise
Sam Worthington is a lifeless protagonist in a film about a government genetics experiment to evolve man into spaceSam Worthington, the 41-year-old Australian actor, has become something of a sci-fi mainstay. And despite his unimpeachably good looks, directors keep turning him into aliens, or quasi-human hybrids, or terminators. Most recently, in the new Netflix release…
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Film Review: ‘Game Over, Man!’
A dumbed-down “Die Hard” tribute debuting on Netflix, Kyle Newacheck’s “Game Over, Man!” is a movie full of bodily fluids and violence, centered on three dopey hotel housekeepers with terrible ideas of how to achieve their ideas of getting rich who choose the worst possible time to pitch one of their harebrained ideas to a…
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‘Game Over, Man!’ Review: The ‘Workaholics’ Team Reunites for a Drug-Addled Riff on ‘Die Hard’
The only convincing explanation for the existence of “Game Over, Man!” is that the brain trust behind Comedy Central’s “Workaholics” got really high on salvia one night and started to wonder what a remake of “Die Hard” might look like if it were written by Judd Apatow, directed by McG, and financed by whatever spare…
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SXSW: Barry Jenkins Shares Oscars Acceptance Speech He Would Have Read After Winning Best Picture For ‘Moonlight’
Academy Award-winning Barry Jenkins took the stage as a keynote speaker and charmed the audience on Day 3 of SXSW. He shared very personal stories about his journey to becoming the acclaimed director he is today. From growing up with a mother addicted to crack cocaine to his undying adoration of Die Hard to making…