Also ranks #35 on The Best African American Characters in Film Also ranks #122 on The Best TV Characters Of The '80s 29 Sister Mary Clarence Sister Act 296 votes Disguising herself as a nun in the 1992 comedy Sister Act, this brassy lounge singer brings life, joy, an...
(will ferrell). sure, hero's-journey narratives are a total cliché — and it's but one of several action-movies tropes that this hilariously self-aware hoot spoofs. making a movie that's a feature-length advertisement for the titular product is easy; making one this zippy...
The President of the United States, James Dale (Jack Nicholson), struggles to maintain peace, while TV journalist Nathalie Lake (Sarah Jessica Parker) reports on the escalating crisis. Meanwhile, in Nevada, a rebellious teenager, Richie Norris (Lukas Haas), becomes an unlikely hero. Famed for ...
The TV. The box. The telly. The small screen. The television set (if you want to be formal). Call it what you want, we’re living in its golden age. Distant is the memory of a time where all you had was a fistful of channels on your nan’s terrestrial static magnet — now, w...
Danny McBride created a timeless American slob hero with the travails of Kenny Powers, a washed-up ballplayer who fought his way back to a trash redemption. Probably the only show in history with a fatal drug overdose set to "Walk Like an Egyptian." Testify, Kenny. ...
Batman?Superman? Maybe Groot? Ever since Superman and Batman re-invented hero tropes found in folklore such as Robin Hood, Zorro, Tarzan, and William Tell, and blended them with classical Greek and Norse myths, Superheroes have taken the world by storm. ...
Critics Consensus: MLK/FBI presents a sobering overview of the American intelligence community's efforts to discredit and destroy a leader of the civil rights movement. Synopsis: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered today as an American hero: a bridge-builder, a shrewd political tactician...
On its own terms, it presented a whole new type of superhero origin story – one devoid of literal superpowers, instead focusing on an American industrialist arms dealer turned self-made hero, captured by Middle Eastern terrorists at a time when the Iraq War was still ongoing. While it went...
The masterful Studio Ghilbi director’s 1997 animated film is awash in amazing sights, none greater than that of the Boar God, a creature whose skin is a tangled, flowing coil of serpents, and whose grip on hero Ashitaka’s arm injures him so badly that he must seek help in a deep ...
video might never achieve its golden-age omnipresence again, but when done right, it could still be just as impactful.RelatedBillboard's 100 Songs That Defined the Decade11/22/2019Over the decade to follow, countless artists would follow their examples, with music videos both casual and epic ...