Inception Was Originally Conceived as a Horror Movie

[ad_1] Christopher Nolan recently set our goosebumps all aquiver by stating (via Variety) that he’d “love to make a horror film.” While Nolan’s previous efforts have contained elements of terror (think Scarecrow’s Fear Toxin hallucinations in Batman Begins, Joker’s homicidal psychopathy in The Dark Knight, the existential threat of a dying planet in Interstellar, and even the…

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Vin Diesel Confirms Work Has Begun on Fast Saga’s “Grand Finale”

[ad_1] The engine is just starting to warm up on the final adventure in Universal’s Fast & Furious franchise, which just received an injection of nitrous oxide from star/producer Vin Diesel (aka speed demon Dominic Toretto) over the weekend. Posting on his Instagram account, which boasts over 100 million followers, the actor revealed that creative development has officially…

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Why It’s Actually Harder to Dodge a Ball Than a Wrench

[ad_1] The 2004 sports comedy Dodgeball (streaming now on Peacock) starring Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Christine Taylor, Justin Long, and Resident Alien‘s Alan Tudyk, introduced the world not only to the sport of competitive dodgeball but also to the misguided wisdom of Patches O’Houlihan (Rip Torn). Patches taught us indispensable wisdom like the five Ds of…

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Why Oppenheimer Doesn’t Include the Deadly “Demon Core” Accidents

[ad_1] Christopher Nolan’s biopic Oppenheimer (now streaming exclusively on Peacock), about the man behind the creation of the atomic bomb, is a gripping, tense, and historically accurate blockbuster. Granted, not every aspect of the Manhattan Project was included. Based primarily on the book American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (the Pulitzer-winning biography written by Kai…

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