Category: The Very Best Of
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Best actor from every EIHL city (Part II)
Editor’s note: This is the second half of our series selecting the most successful contemporary actor from each EIHL city. Last week’s look at the cities in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales can be found here. All filmography and award information is according to the Internet Movie Database. Coventry: Alice Lowe As both co-screenwriter and…
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Best actor from every EIHL city (Part I)
The BAFTAs can blur barriers as big as an ocean. So can any major American award show when British imports make more than a splash on this country’s pop-culture scene. With such crossover at their celebrations of excellence, TV and movies arguably epitomize the United States and United Kingdom’s kinship. On that note, we are crossing the Atlantic to acknowledge some…
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10 best Bart Simpson-Principal Skinner rivalry moments
Starting at the end of next month, Bart Simpson will round out his third decade in fourth grade. For viewers who have kept The Simpsons running this long, this partially means anticipating new Bart-versus-Skinner storylines. Past its peak or not, the show will surely keep revisiting that dynamic. During its golden years, relying on the classic kid-antagonizes-authority-figure…
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10 best Jackie Burkhart quotes
Jackie Burkhart was Mila Kunis’ breakout character in more senses than being her major role. The way the two bookend the likability scale underscored the precocious actor’s aptitude. “She’s a horrible person,” Kunis acknowledged while revisiting some of Jackie’s lines for a Cosmopolitan YouTube video last month. Kunis laughed as she said this, much like…
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10 best Leslie Knope-Ron Swanson moments
Leslie Knope and Ron Swanson could function without one another less than they could with each other. They knew that throughout their shared saga on Parks and Recreation. Over time, the sunny, energetic deputy director and adamantly apathetic director found more co-dependency than contention. As such, they enriched the storyline and elongated its branches of…
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Ranking the Animal House clips on Fandango
Animal House reaches its official 40-year anniversary this Saturday. In a just pop-culture nation, all TV providers will have at least one channel ready to give Delta devotees a weekend fix. Until then, most of us must rely on subscriptions, home-owned copies or online snippets of the definitive college comedy. When one lacks the time…
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Best Ron Burgundy quotes
Any time is a good time to reflect on Ron Burgundy. Apart from milestone anniversaries for Anchorman or its sequel, though, there is no better occasion than Will Ferrell’s birthday. Ferrell, who turns 51 on Monday, has pronounced Anchorman his favorite project to date. He declared as much to The Ringer’s Bill Simmons last summer.…
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Luckiest Friday the 13ths in U.S. movie history
Skyscraper leads a quintet of anticipated movies set for limited or wide release this Friday, July 13. So far, the action thriller’s Rotten Tomatoes profile gauges 96 percent interest among prospective theater-goers. That ties Skyscraper with two of its premiere partners, albeit ones that have drawn less media hype. The docudrama Shock and Awe and…
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10 best Double Dare stories
Nickelodeon returns to Game Zero this Monday by premiering another Double Dare reboot. Yes, another. Double Dare 2000 may have been a not-so-Y2K-compliant flash in the pan, lasting one season. But one diapers-to-dormitories upbringing later, nostalgia fever is spiking, and this revolutionary program would be remiss to sit out. The channel that has long prided itself…
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Most decorated dinosaur films outside Jurassic Park
The fifth volume of the Jurassic Park series hits theaters this Friday. To compound that milestone, the newest release comes two weeks after the Oscar-winning original’s silver anniversary. And there will be a sixth to look forward to early in the next decade. If dinosaur fever was going to reheat amidst the rash of reboots,…