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Taking advantage of the superhero movie craze of the 2000s, Marvel Studios released Iron Man in 2008 as the first step in a multi-film franchise. People may not have even imagined it at the time, but this film would kick off what would soon become the highest-grossing and most successful film franchise in history. Since then, the MCU has produced …

Steampunk is a fairly new genre of fiction that blurs the line between fantasy and sci-fi. Most of the time, it features historical settings, usually the Wild West or the Victorian Era, and ramps up the technological aspect, featuring more steam-powered machines than usual, or devices that were simply not possible for the time period. But this is more of …

Set nearly 200 years before the events of the tremendously successful Game of Thrones, House of the Dragon gives viewers a deep dive into the alluded-to Targaryen bloodline that ruled the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros for centuries. Game of Thrones viewers will surely know the fate of the Targaryen dynasty. Even so, this prequel offers insight into a time when …

Ryan Reynolds is one of Hollywood’s biggest stars, and his movies are box office smashes as well. After launching his career on a teen soap opera, the Canadian-American actor began gaining fame by the early ’00s with fan-favorite comedies like Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, National Lampoon’s Van Wilder and The Proposal, showing off his dramatic side in …

There is arguably no film saga as uneven or rewarding as the X-Men saga. Starting in the 2000s as the first of the new boom of superhero movies in the new millennium, the film series spawned an original trilogy, a spin-off trilogy, and four prequels, all with varying degrees of commercial and critical success. The movies center on mutants, human …

As the 2000s ushered in a golden age of R-rated comedies, the following decade continued to produce more similar hits with similar success. Talented names like Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill, and Judd Apatow maintained their success on screen, both behind the scenes and in front of the camera. But in the 2010s, there were many comedies that not only became …

Fans are still in love with White Collar years later! The USA Network series first premiered in October 2009 and ended in December 2018 after six seasons on the air. White Collar centered on an ultra-suave con man (Matt Bomer) who, in order to avoid jail, signs on to help an FBI agent (Tim DeKay) catch other white-collar thieves — …

South Korean filmmaking has gained international acclaim in recent years, with projects like Parasite and Squid Game finding success all around the globe. In truth, the country’s cinema has been creative and interesting for decades. While the best South Korean films tend to be dark or violent, leaning toward action and sci-fi, the country has also produced a number of …

The movie noir style is an undoubtedly distinctive one, because it’s maybe the one style that has a particular interval throughout which it existed: from the early Forties till the top of the Fifties. There have been films earlier than this era that led to what might be categorized as movie noir, and noir films made after the Fifties had …

Thanks to the recent Marvel Cinematic Universe smash hit Deadpool & Wolverine, the popular X-Men character Gambit has made quite a resurgence. Adding to this sudden spike was his prominent and fan-favorite time in this year’s critical and audience darling X-Men ’97. The success is completely warranted and a long time coming; Gambit is a phenomenal character who deserves all …