CorruptionRaiders of the Lost Ark in 1981, Temple of Doom in 1984, and The Last Crusade in 1989 form a complete trilogy that arrived before Hollywood started planning trilogies as franchise products. Raiders is the first and the best.
1970sThe statement is defensible. The musicians needed tax shelters.
EspionageThe Bourne series is one of the most influential American action franchises of the past twenty-five years and the production that basically transformed how mainstream action cinema is shot, edited, and choreographed. Two additional Ludlum novels followed.
AdaptationThe Blade trilogy is the foundation document of modern Marvel cinema and one of the most influential American action horror franchises of the past three decades. The franchise adapts Marvel Comics characters created by Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan in…
1980sis one of the great American comedies of all time and one of the most substantial parody films in commercial cinema history. The Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker collaborative team had been working substantially in comedy production before Airplane!.
1990sClint Eastwood's foundational revisionist Western. Won four Academy Awards including Best Picture.
1960sThe Good, the Bad and the Ugly defined the Western. Eastwood, Wallach, Van Cleef.
2000sChristopher Nolan's directorial breakthrough. Guy Pearce's career-defining performance.
2000sCoen Brothers' perfect Best Picture winner. Bardem's Oscar-winning Anton Chigurh.
2010sJessica Rothe in Christopher Landon's time loop slasher comedies. Accumulated physical damage as urgency mechanism.
Disney+Tony Stark's death created an institutional vacuum. An essay on how Tony Stark's death in Avengers: Endgame created an institutional vacuum that the various young Avengers framework characters have failed to fill, and what the failure reveals about whether character…
Disney+Pepper, Peggy, Jane, Christine: Marvel's love stories keep falling flat. Why the franchise can't do romance, and the two exceptions that show how it's done.
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