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Favorite films

  • The Prestige
  • Monsters, Inc.
  • Scream
  • Army of Darkness

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  • John Wick

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  • Top Secret!

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  • The Shawshank Redemption

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  • Now You See Me

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John Wick

2014

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Viggo Tarasov: β€œIt’s not what you did, son, that angers me... It’s who you did it to."

Keanu Reeves was 49 when John Wick was filmed. He’s 60 now and will appear in the spinoff Ballerina in a few weeks. He still moves and looks like he’s in his 30s, and he did most of his own stunts for the franchise. Director Chad Stahelski was Keanu’s stunt double in The Matrix, and co-director David Leitch was his stunt coordinator. Reeves…

Top Secret!

1984

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Martin: "Nick, I've tried everything: the embassy, the German government, the consulate. I even talked to the U.N. ambassador. It's no use, I just can't bring my wife to orgasm."

Top Secret! was Val Kilmer’s film debut and it's a hilarious parody, courtesy of the ZAZ trio that made Airplane! four years prior. Kilmer not only held his own but also performed all his own singing, with the songs released under his character Nick Rivers’ name on the soundtrack. The…

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The Shawshank Redemption

1994

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Andy: β€œHope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.”

Frank Darabont turned down Rob Reiner’s $2.5 million offer to buy the script for The Shawshank Redemption, insisting, β€œThis was my chance to do something really great.” Reiner had an agreement with Tom Cruise to cast him as Andy if he got the rights, but Darabont cast Tim Robbins. He was snubbed for an acting nomination at the Oscars that year, but at…

Now You See Me

2013

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J. Daniel Atlas: "Come in close. Closer. Because the more you think you see, the easier it will be to fool you."

I’m watching this for the first time to prep for the third film later this year, but I vaguely seeing parts of it at my cousin’s house since it was on in the background while we were playing the newly released GTA V. Isla Fisher nearly drowned during the water tank escape scene. Her chain got stuck,…

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Killers of the Flower Moon

2023

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Ernest Burkhart: "Can you find the wolves in this picture?"

Robert De Niro first mentioned Martin Scorsese to Leonardo DiCaprio after working with him on This Boy's Life and being impressed by his talent. Scorsese took it seriously because De Niro rarely recommended other actors. Scorsese ed this years later when casting Gangs of New York, which began his long collaboration with DiCaprio. This is the 7th collaboration between Scorsese and DiCaprio and the 11th between Scorsese and De Niro.…

Dune: Part Two

2024

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Paul Atreides: β€œLead them to paradise.”

Wow. Just wow. Austin Butler said he toned down his method acting to play Feyd-Rautha. "I've definitely in the past, with Elvis, explored living within that world for three years, and that is the only thing that I think about day and night. With Feyd, I knew that would be unhealthy for my family and friends. So I made a conscious decision to have a boundary. It allowed for more freedom between action and…