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1997 marked the establishment ofMatt Damonas a household name. His greatest accomplishment of that year, of course, is the belovedGood Will Hunting, which he co-wrote withBen Affleckand co-starred in with Affleck andRobin Williams, catapulting him to immediate success. However, less than a month prior, he got the chanceto be the leading man inThe Rainmaker, anadaptation ofJohn Grisham’s 1995 novel of the same name, written and directed byThe GodfathermastermindFrancis Ford Coppola. In the context of Damon’s career, the legal drama largely exists in the shadow of the titanic roles that came after, fromThe DepartedtoOcean’s Eleven,The Martian, and beyond....

What would you do if your sister, whom you practically raised, suddenly stopped talking to you and moved to a bougie island to work for and live with a suspiciously rich housewife/aviary rescue philanthropist —who is also very likely a cult leader? That’s the question thatMeghann Fahy’s Devon DeWitt has to answer when she ends up on a packed New England island, Edible Arrangement in hand, to confront her estranged sister Simone, played byMilly Alcock, inSirens....

The “big game” is about to get a lot bigger. While CBS will be broadcasting a traditional version of Super Bowl LVIII, Nickelodeon will air the big game with two of its biggest stars helping call it.SpongeBob SquarePants and Patrick Star,Tom KennyandBill Fagerbakkerespectively, will be joining seasoned sportscastersNate BurlesonandNoah Eagletorelay the action to younger audiences. ButSpongeBob and Patrick won’t be the only under-the-sea friends joining in on the fun. Sandy Cheeks, voiced byCarolyn Lawrence, will handle sideline reporting whileLarry the Lobster, voiced byMr....

Editor’s note: The below contains spoilers for The Boys Season 4. The BoysSeason 4 has beenupping its ante with gross lobotomies, super-powered livestock, and an unexpected superhuman centipede, but last week’s release might just bethe show’s most uncomfortable outing yet.Complete with a questionably long torture scene involving Hughie (Jack Quaid) in Tek Knight’s (Derek Wilson) sex dungeon and Homelander’s (Antony Starr) long-awaited reunion with his love of breast-feeding, the latest installment ofEric Kripke’ssatire more than lives up to the series' reputation for keeping its viewers on edge....

Production for the nextHunger Gamesfilm,Sunrise on the Reaping, is about to begin. Lionsgate has announced a variety of cast members to star in the franchise’s prequel, but before you indulge in Haymitch’s story in the 2nd Quarter Quell, you can watch where this saga all began, as the original trilogy has found a new streaming home next month. The Hunger Gamesand its three sequels,Catching FireandMockingjay Part 1 and Part 2,will enter HBO Max next month....

TheMarvel Cinematic Universe’s latest theatrical release,The Marvels,will beavailable for purchase on digital platforms starting on January 16. The superhero sequel, produced byKevin Feige,hasn’t set a streaming date onDisney+yet, meaning that viewers who can’t wait to check it out at home can only purchase a digital copy, for the moment. The movie follows three powerful heroes on a cosmic adventure as they come together to defeat a power antagonist. The Marvelscaught up with Carol Danvers (Brie Larson), Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Parris) and Kamala Khan (Iman Vellani), as they realized that every time two of them tried to use their powers at the same time, they swapped places....

Keanu Reevesbegan his acting career in youth theater productions and TV roles in Canada, before landing his breakout supporting role in the hockey movieYoungbloodin 1986. With his natural charisma and distinct understated delivery,Reeves quickly landed roles in TV and films once he moved to Los Angeles. While his first major commercial success was the role of slacker teen musician Ted inBill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, his background in theater prepared him to portray more complex roles in films likeStephen Frears’Academy Award-nominated filmDangerous Liaisons....

14 years after the final movie came out,Harry Potteris still such a cultural giant thatHBO is making a TV adaptation of it. That should be an interesting project, as several of those books may indeed have enough material to support an entire season’s worth of episodes each. However, it’s also hard to imagine that it’ll have the same impact as the films did. Fans who grew up with them will never stop loving them, and a lot of that has to do with the characters....

Big, sprawling movie franchises have defined the last few years of cinema’s modern history. Many of them have proved to be huge financial successes, with each subsequent installment bringing in more and more money at the international box office. According to the data available onThe Numbers, there are 10 film franchises that have made considerably more money than most others. From superhero juggernauts like theMarvel Cinematic Universeto long-running action extravaganzas like theFast and Furiousfranchise, these movie series have garnered a large variety of responses from critics on Rotten Tomatoes, where calculating the average Tomatometer score of each one comes up with rather interesting results....

ABC is one of the “Big Three” networks, along with NBC and CBS. After beginning as a radio operation in 1927, the company branched out into TV in the early 1960s. Since then, the corporation has produced a ton of content. There are a number of duds in its roster of shows, of course, but alsoa fair number of legitimate classics, likeLost,Grey’s Anatomy, andHow to Get Away with Murder. Comedies might be where ABC shines the most, however....

Every film fan has had an experience once in their life where they’re so upset by a movie that they don’t want to finish it. While the age of streaming has made it easier to simply shut off a film before it’s completed, walking out of a theater is a major decision that cinephiles don’t take lightly. Even a bad movie is generally worth appreciating as a guilty pleasure, and walking out removes the possibility ofenjoying a potential camp classic....

TheFifty Shadesseries, beginning withFifty Shades of Grey, was one of the most widely mocked of the 2010s, consisting of three films released between 2015 and 2018, based on three books all published in 2011 and 2012. The novels were considered guilty pleasures by some readers and bafflingly awful by others, though it could well have been the case of there being no such thing as bad publicity, given the notoriety got people talking....

Greta Gerwig’sBarbiebrings the iconic doll to life with impressive depth and style.Margot RobbieandRyan Goslingstar as Barbie and Ken, who leave Barbie Land for the Real World to learn who’s causing problems for the otherwise carefree Barbie. The film received critical acclaim for its inventiveness, message, and the performances of its cast.Gosling andAmerica Ferrerareceived Oscar nominationsfor their performances, while the film received a Best Picture nomination, cementing it as the cultural phenomenon of 2023....