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"The Popcorn Champs"
film
The first
Harry Potter
movie preserved everything in the book… except its magic
By Tom Breihan
December 11, 2020 | 6:00am
film
The 20th century ended with the creative whimper and box-office bang of
The Phantom Menace
By Tom Breihan
November 13, 2020 | 6:00am
film
Saving Private Ryan
brought some gravitas to a summer of loud, dumb Hollywood spectacles
By Tom Breihan
October 30, 2020 | 11:00am
film
At the height of the cynical ’90s,
Titanic
’
s heartfelt spectacle became king of the world
By Tom Breihan
October 16, 2020 | 5:00am
film
For better or worse,
Independence Day
supersized the blockbuster spectacle
By Tom Breihan
October 2, 2020 | 5:00am
film
Tom Hanks
helped mythologize a whole generation in the boomer blockbuster
Forrest Gump
By Tom Breihan
September 4, 2020 | 5:00am
film
Jurassic Park
gave the whole world the Spielberg Face
By Tom Breihan
August 21, 2020 | 5:00am
film
Loaded with Robin Williams riffs and killer songs,
Aladdin
was a whole new world for animated movies
By Tom Breihan
August 7, 2020 | 5:00am
film
Schwarzenegger hit his apex as a movie star and an actor in the record-breaking
Terminator 2
By Tom Breihan
July 24, 2020 | 11:00am
film
Home Alone
made a generation of kids cheer—and probably scarred them for life
By Tom Breihan
July 10, 2020 | 1:00pm
film
Rain Man
’s movie-star chemistry holds up better than its depiction of autism
By Tom Breihan
June 12, 2020 | 11:00am
film
Somehow, bogus big-screen sitcom
Three Men And A Baby
became the biggest hit of 1987
By Tom Breihan
May 29, 2020 | 11:00am
film
Top Gun
is the sleekest, horniest recruitment ad of the 1980s
By Tom Breihan
May 15, 2020 | 11:00am
film
Though set in two bygone eras,
Back To The Future
is timeless blockbuster fun
By Tom Breihan
May 1, 2020 | 11:00am
film
Eddie Murphy crashed through a glass ceiling of Hollywood stardom with
Beverly Hills Cop
By Tom Breihan
April 17, 2020 | 11:00am
film
The ’80s blockbuster era really began with
Return Of The Jedi
and the millions of toys it sold
By Tom Breihan
April 3, 2020 | 11:00am
film
With
E.T.
, Steven Spielberg channeled his own pain into a soulful all-time smash
By Tom Breihan
March 20, 2020 | 11:00am
film
Indiana Jones made his Nazi-punching debut in the ultimate Disneyland ride of a movie
By Tom Breihan
March 6, 2020 | 12:00pm
film
Sequels got deeper and more ambitious with
The Empire Strikes Back
By Tom Breihan
February 21, 2020 | 12:00pm
film
A young John Travolta made
Grease
watchable—and a huge box-office smash
By Tom Breihan
January 24, 2020 | 12:00pm
film
The first
Star Wars
is still the weirdest trip to the galaxy far, far away
By Tom Breihan
January 10, 2020 | 12:00pm
film
More than mere schmaltz,
Rocky
tells an underdog story of mythic force
By Tom Breihan
December 27, 2019 | 2:00pm
film
From the depths of a disastrous shoot swam
Jaws
, the ultimate summer blockbuster
By Tom Breihan
December 13, 2019 | 2:00pm
film
Blazing Saddles
punched up—knocking out horses and a racist America in one swing
By Tom Breihan
November 1, 2019 | 11:00am
film
For all its blood, vomit, and obscenities,
The Exorcist
was a blockbuster of traditional values
By Tom Breihan
October 18, 2019 | 11:00am
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