by Kevin Faber
Sunset Boulevard is, deservedly, one of the most iconic films ever made. Unfortunately, since the movie is over seventy years old, many people don't know a lot about this masterpiece. Therefore, here is an in-depth review of the fifties classic Sunset Boulevard.
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The 2011 movie Unknown takes audiences on a wild ride as Liam Neeson's character, a biology professor that has traveled to Germany for an important summit, navigates the pitfalls of having his identity stolen after an accident makes him lose his memory and leaves him without any identification, his only solid tie to life being his pocket journal and the pieces of his memory that still remain. Stranger still are the people chasing him and the woman that drove the taxi that he had been in when the accident occurred.
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If you enjoy heist movies and liked Steven Soderbergh's Oceans trilogy, you may enjoy the spinoff movie Ocean's 8. Released in 2018, it opened exactly 11 years after the opening of Ocean's Thirteen.
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The 2011 movie Moneyball follows Brad Pitt as Billy Beane in the true story of how the former baseball player turned general manager of the Oakland A's attempted to build a good team in 2002 with a lower budget than most baseball teams are afforded by using statistics to recruit people that the rest of the industry considered either underdogs or altogether throwaways. Jonah Hill plays Peter Brand, Beane's right-hand man and the one who specialized in the statistics that they ended up using in their new strategy.
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The 2016 hit movie, "The Founder," tells the story of the founding of McDonald's. The film is set primarily in Minnesota, where Ray Kroc got his start. However, the locations that you see on screen can't actually be found anywhere in the gopher state. Instead, Atlanta and several surrounding cities stood in for the various locations in the film. Here's a look at which places may have stood in for your favorite scenes.
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Emotions drive human behavior, at least according to the 2015 film Inside Out from Pixar Studios. The lively and heartfelt collaboration between longtime Pixar director Pete Docter (Monsters, Inc, Up) and story artist Ronnie del Carmen (Wall-E, Brave) adroitly balances the sense of internal tumult of adolescence with the perspective of parents watching it all unfold.
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The original anime of Ghost in the Shell was a hit with fans for its portrayal of a young woman injured in an accident whose body has been enhanced with cyborg abilities. The 2017 film Ghost in the Shell is a brilliant adaptation of that anime and is sure to please diehard fans as well as those new to the genre.
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Adapting a beloved work of literature for the screen is always a risky procedure. Stick too close to the source material and people will call it derivative and unimaginative. Depart too far from the source material, and people will call it unrecognizable. The stakes are even higher when adapting a work of children's literature because while people are eager to relive a bit of their childhood, they fear having beloved memories usurped or tainted.
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Cyber security is a hot topic among many and with good reason. With more purchases being done online and with websites storing a slew of data, your private information is ripe for the picking by potential hackers. That's why a movie such as Blackhat, starring Chris Hemsworth and directed by Michael Mann should have been a blockbuster sparking interest and debate about security issues threatening society
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The series of Jason Bourne movies are among the most popular and successful in the action-adventure genre. The 2016 installment has the character's name as the title and continues the story from the previous four movies.
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After a lot of waiting, Spider-Man No Way Home hit the theatre with a lot of expectations. If you are familiar with the news and rumors, you might have heard one or two theories/rumors about the movie. We will do a full review of the movie in this article to help you know more details.
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Hollywood has been churning out movie musicals for decades. While the genre experienced somewhat of a decline in the seventies, it's steadily regaining popularity. One of the most solid entries in the genre is Hairspray, the movie adaptation of the Broadway musical. If you'd like to learn more about this endlessly entertaining film, read on for a review of Hairspray.
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