The live-action remake of Disney’s ‘Beauty and the Beast’ is coming out next year, so The Onion’s head film critic, Peter K. Rosenthal takes a chin-stroking look back at the 1991 animation.
He explains how, with the beast’s abundant hair it taught gay men known as bears that it was OK to be hairy—which was revolutionary for its time.
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YouTube channel that you’ve probably forgotten even exists, Brock’s Dub, redubs John Carpenter’s classic horror remake The Thing.
And it’s very, very entertaining, adding a very comical tone to a film that is in no way funny—and as a credit to the FX team, even with a silly voiceover, the monster’s transformations are still puke-inducing.
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Making comedy may sometimes look like a breeze, but it isn’t easy to make someone laugh when it comes to the moving image.
But, that doesn’t mean there’s only a certain way to get a laugh out of people, there are many ways to do it—here’s ten of cinema’s best.
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Cinema Sins take a look at the last X-Men movie ‘X-Men Apocalypse’ and by take a look they pick it apart listing 150 things wrong with it.
They do all this by starting at the very beginning with the film’s setting in Ancient Egypt and not letting up for the next 20 minutes.
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If you’ve been watching Westworld then you’ve no doubt been enjoying the performances and intrigue as the robots are getting seemingly more rebellious and autonomous.
In this video Nerdwriter1 looks at the park’s co-founder Dr. Ford played by Anthony Hopkins, the actor uses all his acting chops to reveal a character who is at once vulnerable, kind, threatening, and whose motivations are still a mystery.
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The upcoming documentary Saving Banksy is the true story of an art collector’s attempt to save a Banksy from destruction and also from the auction block.
It features interviews from various graffiti artists discussing how on the one hand you have the police calling their work vandalism, while on the other collectors see it as a goldmine to be exploited.
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It’s finally here, the first look at The Grand Tour, the upcoming car-themed Amazon Original series starring Jeremy Clarkson, James May, and Richard Hammond.
The former Top Gear hosts will star in the new weekly streaming show on Amazon Prime beginning November 18, 2016. Will it live up to their previous show? We’ll have to wait and see.
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When you watch a Pixar movie, you go through a certain range of emotions as the film progresses.
Animator Leigh Lahav lays down that rollercoaster of feelings, starting with denial (of course) and going all the way to “Pixar Nirvana.”
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