Before the Joker turned him into a posthumous Academy Award winner, Heath Ledger spent nearly a decade fighting to escape the label Hollywood placed on him after his first American film. Ledger broke through in 1999 with 10 Things I Hate About You, a teen romantic comedy that made him a heartthrob almost overnight. He […]
In 2023, a new Christopher Nolan movie found itself at the center of one of the biggest moviegoing events of the decade. Famously, Oppenheimer opened in theaters on the same day as Greta Gerwig’s Barbie. Rather than cannibalizing each other at the box office, both highly anticipated releases achieved a great deal of success, as […]
Superhero movies have become a fixture of the Hollywood release calendar, with Marvel and DC turning their characters into a near-permanent presence on movie screens for close to two decades. In fact, superheroes have been around for long enough for people to wonder if the golden age of comic book adaptations is coming to an […]
It’s pretty common to hear people say “they don’t make movies as they used to anymore,” right? But very few years have backed up that argument quite like 2008. In the span of just a few months, Hollywood released movies that couldn’t have been more different from one another, yet they all had one important […]
This summer has proven to be a massive one for movies, with Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey grossing close to $1 billion and Destin Daniel Cretton’s Spider-Man: Brand New Day grossing more than $1 billion at the box office so far (and still climbing, especially in the case of Brand New Day, which hasn’t even been […]