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Aug 13, 2010 · I also give Gene great credit for casting Diana Muldaur as Pulaski–someone who could stand up to Picard and matched Stewart’s acting chops.
Sep 1, 2020 · Patrick Stewart’s arduous journey to becoming Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation is legendary—and it’s no secret that it took a lot of convincing to get show creator Gene...
Oct 2, 2023 · It is a remarkable story of a boy who grew up poor in the north of England, became a great Shakespearean stage actor and then a sci-fi movie icon aboard the USS Enterprise and the “X-Men ...
Oct 8, 2023 · Patrick Stewart was already forty-seven and had spent fourteen years as a full-time member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. But he had known nothing like the fame that playing Jean-Luc Picard...
- 10 Stanley Kubrick's 'A Clockwork Orange'
- 9 Tommy Wiseau's 'The Room'
- 8 Neil Breen's 'Double Down'
- 7 Terrence Malick's 'Badlands'
- Night Shyamalan's 'Glass'
- 5 Steven Spielberg's 'The Fabelmans'
- 4 Akira Kurosawa's 'Kagemusha'
- 3 Chloé Zhao's 'Nomadland'
- 2 Guillermo Del Toro's 'The Shape of Water'
- 1 Bong Joon Ho's 'Parasite'
The controversial, thought-provoking, and interestingly scored A Clockwork Orange was initially published as a novel in 1962, written by Anthony Burgess. As such, filmmaker Stanley Kubrick can't be credited with developing the film's story - which centers on crime, corruption, and the tortured pursuit of justice in a dystopian future - but otherwis...
It's fair to call Tommy Wiseau a perfectionist, given some of what came to light through The Disaster Artist. The non-fiction book (which was adapted into a 2017 film) chronicled the making of Wiseau's The Room, a romantic melodrama/tragedy that centers on one man's best friend and "future wife" betraying him by having an affair behind his back. Wh...
In the realm of so-bad-they're-good cult classics from the 21st century, Neil Breen's movies honestly rival Tommy Wiseau's The Room. He's been more prolific than Wiseau, too, with a total of six feature films to his name since his first, Double Down, which was gifted to the world in 2005. It's low-budget and bizarre, but in the best way possible, a...
Terrence Malick has always been great at making poetic, character-focused stories, and he demonstrated that right from the start of his filmmaking career, with 1973's Badlands. It's a movie about two young people in love, traveling across America... only one of them's on the run for a series of murders, and the other's just along for the ride. RELA...
Some people love the films of M. Night Shyamalan, some people don't, and others may fall somewhere in the middle, enjoying certain films of his while not liking others. He's an uncompromising filmmaker who's nevertheless found a good deal of success from doing his own thing, and it's hard not to admire that, even if he doesn't always execute his am...
Though Steven Spielberg is known for directing and producing a host of great films since the 1970s, he's not typically someone who writes his own movies. Being the director does require knowledge of how to tell a story and communicate the narrative visually of course, but it's rarer to see Spielberg credited with actually writing his films' screenp...
It's fair to call Akira Kurosawa a legendary and visionary director, because even his lesser-known movies are frequently great. His career spanned a good 50 years or so, but while he frequently directed and at least co-wrote many of his films, it was less common to see him credited with being a producer. RELATED: Legendary Japanese Directors Who Ar...
Given how intimate and personal Nomadland feels, it's not too surprising to learn thatChloé Zhaowas involved in producing, writing, and directing it. The film follows a year in the life of a woman in her 60s who lives as a modern-day nomad, primarily due to the effects of the Great Recession. Zhao previously has success with 2017's The Rider, but t...
Like many other filmmakers who take on producing, directing, and writing credits all at once, Guillermo del Torohas an unmistakable style when it comes to how his movies look and feel. It's brought him a great deal of success in the past couple of decades, as he's one of the most acclaimed and beloved filmmakers working today. Even if the dark fair...
Parasite is many things. It's a dark comedy, it's a thriller, it's a tragedy, and it's also a scathing indictment of capitalism and what it does to the human beings that have to live under it. It's also unmistakably a Bong Joon Hofilm, featuring many of his trademarks and various themes that he likes to explore in most of his movies. Though he's no...
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Apr 9, 2022 · It's not that he thought Stewart wasn't a great actor. He just didn't see him in the captain's chair and wanted Stephen Macht ("The Monster Squad") instead. Thank goodness his mind was changed!
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Sir Patrick Stewart may be best known for playing Professor X and Jean-Luc Picard in recent years, but he has proven himself capable of embodying many great characters in the movies that best...
