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Welcome to the Author Archive for Lisa Laman
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Ten Years Ago, The Jack Black Renaissance Began Giving Audiences Goosebumps
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Jared Leto vs. Jason Segel: How To Do Fan-Fiction Right
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What's Up With Emily Blunt's Miscalculated 'The Smashing Machine' Performance?
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Before 'The Smashing Machine,' Dwayne Johnson Showed Off His Chops in 'Southland Tales'
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Leonardo DiCaprio's Acting Career Has Been Built On Being Vulnerable
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Margot Robbie Delivered One of the Best Wes Anderson Movie Performances Ever
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Why We Need More Filmed Broadway Shows like 'Hamilton' in Theaters
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How Superman Zoomed Past So Many Other Summer 2025 Movies In Quality
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Remember When Hollywood's Big Comeback Hinged on Russell Crowe and 'New Mutants'?
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What Does The New Paramount Pictures Look Like?
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2025 Is the Comeback Year for Hollywood's Leading Men of the 2010s
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Akiva Schaffer's 'SNL' Masterpiece 'Dear Sister' Is the Genesis for 'The Naked Gun'
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The Future of Theatrical Moviegoing Should Be Accessible, Not Costly and Exclusive
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A Decade Ago, Fox Teased a Marvel Future at Comic-Con That Never Happened
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Why Materialists, Babygirl, and The Iron Claw Are A24's Most Important Recent Hits
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'Superman' Hints at a Quieter Future for Comic-Book Movie Credit Scenes
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We Need Way More Dinosaur Movies Beyond the Jurassic Park Saga
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How 'Ted 2' Collapsed the Seth MacFarlane Cinematic Empire Ten Years Ago
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How The Pixar Empire Crumbled (Even Before COVID And Elio Arrived)
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How Many Times Must the Rom-Com Prove Itself at the Box Office?
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'The Accountant 2's Release Strategy Makes Netflix's Anti-Movie Theater Attitude Infuriating
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Where Does Troubled 'Ballerina' Studio Lionsgate Go Next?
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'Casper' to 'Lilo & Stitch': What We Lost in 30 Years of Live-Action Remakes
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Disney, Start Remaking Unmade Animated Movies
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How Has 'Mad Max: Fury Road' Influenced the Last Ten Years of Cinema?
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We Were Supposed to Get a New Pharrell Williams Movie ... What Happened?
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Will Summer 2025 Save This Year's Box Office?
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Which Modern Classic Movies Should Hollywood Re-Release Theatrically Next?
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Let's Talk About David Cronenberg's Trans Fanbase
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Kelly Marie Tran Was a Queer Icon Long Before 'The Wedding Banquet'
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The Faith-Based Oscar Isaac Cinematic Universe You Didn't Know About
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From Gen Z to Minecraft: What Hollywood Forgot About Its Youngest Fans
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Snow White's Songwriters Pasek & Paul Must Be Stopped for the Good of Musical Cinema
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Was Ratatouille the Worst Thing To Happen to Pixar?
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Why 'Becoming Led Zeppelin' Is 2025's Most Exciting Box Office Success, So Far
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'F Marry Kill' Annoys Rather Than Captures Your Heart
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Before 'Anora,' How Many Truly Independent Best Picture Oscar Winners Have There Been?
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So What Does Apple TV+ Do In Original Films Now?
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How Did a Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman, and Tommy Lee Jones Movie Completely Disappear?
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'Companion,' 'Anora,' 'Wicked,' and Modern Women Protagonists Eschewing Assimilation
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What's With the Grown-Up Fanbase for the Movie Version of Paddington?
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Ten Years Ago, Fifty Shades of Grey Broke Box Office Records But Failed To Spawn Imitators
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American Film Distribution Is in Crisis Mode ... and It's Not Going To Get Better
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How 'Hoodwinked!' Changed January Cinema Forever
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The Biggest Box Office Lessons of 2024
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Seven 21st Century Movies That Should Be Added to the National Film Registry Next
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How Bill Skarsgård Enters Monstrous New Acting Territory with 'Nosferatu'
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Thanks Chappell Roan For Getting Us Through 2024
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How the Film Version of 'Wicked's' 'Popular' Represents the Brilliance of Its Adaptation
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Why Streaming Services Struggle So Much in the Horror Genre
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'Tusk' and Kevin Smith's Brief, Bloody Rebellion