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Released on August 10, 1984, Red Dawn became an instant Cold War classic — blending teenage rebellion, survivalist grit, and patriotic fervor. Long before The Hunger Games or Stranger Things, the late Patrick Swayze was facing down Soviet paratroopers with a hunting rifle in the snow. Nearly four decades later, this cult favorite still leaves its mark on pop culture.

The Premise: High School Meets Guerrilla Warfare

Set in the fictional town of Calumet, Colorado, Red Dawn imagines an alternate 1980s where the United States faces invasion by Soviet, Cuban, and Nicaraguan forces. With NATO gone, America stands alone.

When paratroopers descend from the sky, brothers Jed and Matt Eckert (Patrick Swayze and Charlie Sheen) escape into the mountains with their friends. There, they form a guerrilla resistance called the Wolverines. Their mission: survive, sabotage the enemy, and unleash their battle cry — “Wolverines!” — in explosive style.

Cold War Chaos & Behind-the-Scenes...

Chris Hemsworth will always be famous for playing Thor in the MCU, but one year after he first suited up as the God of Thunder, he starred in a critically panned action remake that has returned to streaming charts years later. Hemsworth stars alongside Josh Peck (Drake & Josh) and Josh Hutcherson (The Hunger Games) in Red Dawn, the 2012 action remake following a group of teenagers who try to save their town from a group of soldiers. Red Dawn is currently streaming on HBO Max in the United States and on Prime Video globally, where it’s trending in the top 10 in countries such as the Dominican Republic. The film earned “Rotten” scores of 15% from critics and 50% from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes, and it grossed only $50 million globally against a $65 million budget, making it a financial flop.

In addition to Hemsworth, Hutcherson, and Peck, Red Dawn also stars Jeffrey Dean Morgan...

Arnold Schwarzenegger has been a part of many franchises over the years, and that goes back to the very start of his career. His breakthrough role was in 1982's Conan the Barbarian, a part he would reprise for the 1984 sequel, Conan the Destroyer. Schwarzenegger has expressed interest in the past about doing another Conan movie, and he still hasn't given up hope, feeling it would have a lot of potential.

The subject came up during an interview with Collider. Schwarzenegger was asked about sequels to his films that he wishes would happen, and one example he gave was Twins. That's because the film actually came very close to happening until the death of director Ivan Reitman, who was planning to come back and direct. Beyond that, Schwarzenegger also admitted that he still finds himself thinking about returning to the role of Conan one day.

"I think Twins was one of them,...

When "Dirty Harry" arrived in 1971, it did so amid a flurry of controversy. To some, Clint Eastwood's rogue cop Harry Callahan seemed to be a celebration of police brutality, and the film overall came across as an apologia for vaguely fascist ideals. That is, unless you just took it for the brilliant action crime thriller it was. If you liked your heroes problematic, brooding, and with a healthy disdain for the rules, Callahan was one of the best main characters in the history of cinema. Those that simply enjoyed the film on that level propelled it to success, leading to a sequel and three other Dirty Harry movies. It all started in 1973 with Callahan returning in "Magnum Force," and it almost seemed as if the movie's writers were hitting out at critics of Eastwood's maverick inspector.

In "Magnum Force" the criminals are about as despicable as you can get,...

For decades, Arnold Schwarzenegger has inspired bodybuilders, aspiring actors, politicians, and others. His unique story of coming to the United States at 21, then rising through the bodybuilding ranks to become one of the nation’s most influential figures is the stuff of legend. But who inspires Schwarzenegger? In Arnie’s latest Monday Motivation newsletter, the box office behemoth addresses his Pump Club members with a heart-wrenching look back at the life and continuing journey of filmmaker John Milius, who Schwarzenegger credits with launching his movie career.

In the Monday Motivation post, Schwarzenegger discusses Milius’ King Conan script and compares its gripping narrative to the fear of aging and meeting our maker before we’re ready to leave this mortal coil. Sadly, John Milius is in the throes of a cancer battle. However, Schwarzenegger is here to pump him up for the ongoing fight, using Milius’ own words and themes to...

Cannibals and a beloved rock band hit the indie circuit for the long holiday weekend as Magnolia Pictures opens action thriller 40 Acres and This Is Spinal Tap returns for a special engagement from Bleecker Street and Fathom. A24 expands Eva Victor’s critically acclaimed directorial debut Sorry, Baby to 14 screens from 4.

Magnolia acquired 40 Acres out of TIFF this year where it was named one of Canada’s Top 10 films of the festival. It’s in 300+ theaters nationwide. The directorial debut of R.T Thorne set in a post-apocalyptic world chronicles a multi-racial Canadian farming family fighting to protect their piece of land from rabid cannibals. Star Danielle Deadwyler is the shoot-first matriarch of an angsty family put to the test when her son (Kataem O’Connor) makes a grave misstep that puts their collective in great danger. Thorne wrote the screenplay with Glenn Taylor and Lora Campbell. Also stars Michael Greyeyes and Milcania Diaz-Rojas.

Predator: Badlands director Dan Trachtenberg compares the upcoming film's main character to several classic movie heroes, including one played by Arnold Schwarzenegger. Serving as the latest installment in the Predator franchise after Prey (2022), the new film stars Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi as Dek, an outcast Yautja who teams up with an android named Thia (Elle Fanning) as he attempts to prove himself.

Dek serving as Predator: Badlands' main character marks a franchise first, as all previous protagonists have been human. This includes Dutch, Schwarzenegger's hero in the franchise's debut installment back in 1987.

During a recent interview with Empire, Trachtenberg doesn't liken Dek to Dutch, with the protagonist in Predator: Badlands instead said to have more in common with another classic Schwarzenegger character: Conan the Barbarian. Dek may be the "runt of the litter," but his quiet, outcast nature also makes him similar to someone like Mad Max. Read Trachtenberg's comment below:

“He...

Most behind-the-scenes documentaries function as extended advertisements, carefully curated to enhance a film’s mythology. Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse is something else entirely. It stands as a harrowing chronicle of a film production actively imploding, a psychological thriller where the monster is artistic ambition itself.

The film documents the notoriously difficult creation of Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now, a production that descended into a state of chaos so profound it began to eerily reflect its subject matter. Coppola’s famous declaration at Cannes, “My film is not about Vietnam.

It is Vietnam,” was less a boast than a weary confession. Built from an archive of shockingly candid 16mm footage shot by the director’s wife, Eleanor Coppola, the documentary offers an unfiltered look at a creative process pushed past the brink of disaster. It is a story not of how a movie was made, but how it...

Coppola said his masterpiece Apocalypse Now ‘is not about Vietnam; it is Vietnam’ – this superb film shows how little he was exaggerating

The greatest ever making-of documentary is now on re-release: the terrifying story of how Francis Ford Coppola’s Vietnam war masterpiece Apocalypse Now got made – even scarier than Les Blank’s Burden of Dreams, about the making of Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo. The time has come to acknowledge Eleanor Coppola’s magnificent achievement here as first among equals of the credited directors in shooting the original location footage (later interspersed with interviews by Fax Bahr and George Hickenlooper), getting the stunningly intimate audio tapes of her husband Francis’s meltdown moments and, of course, in unassumingly keeping the family together while it was all going on.

With his personal and financial capital very high after The Conversation and the Godfather films, Coppola put up his own money and...

"Dirty Harry" debuted in 1971 amid considerable controversy. Clint Eastwood's maverick cop Harry Callahan played by his own rules which simultaneously electrified and appalled audiences at the time. Director Don Siegel had, depending on your point of view, created a celebration of police overreach, a harmless action fantasy, or a grave warning against the dangers of flouting the rules in favor of one's own predilections.

In the film, Callahan tracks and apprehends the Scorpio Killer (Andrew Robinson), a serial murderer with his own predilection for shooting innocent people from rooftops. Eastwood's loose canon isn't exactly a stickler for the rules, and has no qualms about bending the law in order to get his man, thereby stoking the controversy that followed the film's release. But Siegel also made an effort to draw a parallel between the barbarity of the serial killer and Harry's own proclivity for violence. In time, "Dirty Harry...

In Ted Post's 1973 cop drama "Magnum Force" -- the second movie in the "Dirty Harry" series -- Clint Eastwood returns as Harry Callahan, this time paired with a partner, Earlington "Early" Smith, played by Felton Perry. The film follows the two detectives' investigation into a series of extrajudicial murders seemingly being performed by a motorcycle cop. One vigilante killing, they find, is linked to another, and then another. The murders eventually lead them to discover a vast, dark conspiracy within the San Francisco Police Department. It seems that the Sfpd is lousy with vigilantes hellbent on frontier justice, and have formed a pact to murder criminals on the street. Harry, disgusted by his own department, will have to find the death ring's leader, and end the violence once and for all. 

This was a great way to flip the script on the first "Dirty Harry" movie from 1971. That film was...

"Jaws" was released in June of 1975, and the very fact that we're still passionately, eagerly discussing the movie decades later for its 50th anniversary says a lot about its impact, value, and staying power. In addition to just how damn good the film itself is, there's so much lore and debate that surrounds it to this day. One question that often comes up is a deceptively simple one: what's the scariest scene or moment in the movie? Some will say the opening sequence, others the various attacks by the Great White on crowded public beaches in the middle of a sunny summer day. For my money, however, no moment in "Jaws" is more richly disturbing than a setpiece we don't actually get to see: the sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis in 1945, in which the few survivors of the World War II skirmish found themselves wading in shark-infested waters with no hope of rescue.

On its 50th anniversary, Steven Spielberg’s Jaws can claim to be the most disruptive film of the last half-century, maybe even ever. While predecessors like The Godfather and The Exorcist drew theater lines around the block through word-of-mouth, Jaws was the one for which the term summer blockbuster was coined. Opening on a then-unheard-of 409 screens, the film caught the zeitgeist in an unprecedented manner, helped by marketing techniques that would center escapism as a staple of the summer movie season.

Spielberg’s film followed hard on the heels of Peter Benchley’s bestselling 1974 novel, with screenwriter Carl Gottlieb throwing out the book’s myriad subplots to focus on New England police chief Martin Brody (Roy Scheider) and the team he assembles to stop a great white shark that is terrorizing Amity Island: intellectual oceanographer Matt Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss) and salty, no-nonsense shark hunter Quint (Robert Shaw).

In Spielberg’s hands,...

Exclusive: Producers Lou Arkoff (George Of The Jungle) and Donna Arkoff Roth (Grosse Point Blank) are teaming up with The Wonder Company (Sacramento) to develop modern reimaginings of vintage genre films from their family-owned catalog of American International Pictures (Aip) movies.

Founded by Samuel Z. Arkoff and James H. Nicholson in 1954, Aip was a pioneer in independent filmmaking, helping foster the careers of legendary filmmakers such as Roger Corman, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, and John Milius. The Aip library hosts original IP that inspired modern franchises such as The Fast and The Furious, Mad Max and The Amityville Horror.

Arkoff, Roth and The Wonder Company—led by producers Eric B. Fleischman and Chris Abernathy—plan to breathe new life into a curated selection of the films. The partnership will focus on ten titles from Aip’s catalog, such as Day the World Ended, The Undead, and Jailbreakers.

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Domina is a British-Italian historical drama series created by Simon Burke. The Sky Atlantic series chronicles the life of Livia Drusilla, from her early years when Julius Caesar was assassinated to her marriage to the Roman emperor Augustus, which makes way for her to become the most powerful and influential empress in the Roman Empire. Domina stars Nadia Parkes, Tom Glynn-Carney, Enzo Cilenti, Peter Campion, Darrel D’Silva, Tom Forbes, Liam Garrigan, Oliver Huntington, and Alexandra Moloney. So, if you loved the historical drama, a captivating story, and compelling characters in Domina, here are some similar shows you should check out next.

Troy: Fall of a City (Netflix & Rent on Prime Video) Credit – Netflix

Troy: Fall of a City is a historical drama miniseries created by David Farr. Based on the Trojan War, the Netflix series revolves around...

Well, there’s one less soldier on the DC Studios battlefield.

“Sgt. Rock,” to be directed by Luca Guadagnino and written by his “Challengers” and “Queer” collaborator Justin Kuritzkes, is no longer moving forward at DC Studios, TheWrap has exclusively learned. Colin Farrell, already a part of the DC Comics universe thanks to his role as The Penguin in Matt Reeves’ “The Batman” and the HBO spinoff series “The Penguin,” was in talks to play the title character after Daniel Craig dropped out.

The issue, one insider noted, came down to scheduling. The film, which would require a lot of exterior shoots, needed to start production this summer and wasn’t going to make its date. Budget didn’t appear to be an issue — it was meant to come in under $70 million, which for a high-priority comic book adaptation, is a bargain.

DC Studios had no comment.

The character, a...

Ted Kotcheff, the Canadian filmmaker who introduced moviegoers to Sylvester Stallone’s traumatized Vietnam War veteran John Rambo with “First Blood” and helmed comedies like “Weekend at Bernie’s,” “Fun With Dick and Jane” and “The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz,” died Thursday. He was 94.

His death was confirmed by his family to Canadian publication The Globe and Mail.

After beginning his career in Canadian television and working in the U.K. industry, Kotcheff broke through, first with the Australian thriller “Wake in Fright,” then with his 1974 feature “The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz,” a Canada-produced adaptation of Mordechai Richler’s 1959 coming-of-age novel starring then-rising star Richard Dreyfuss. The film took home the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival and earned an Academy Award nomination for best adapted screenplay (for Richler and Lionel Chetwynd), launching Kotcheff’s career in the American film industry. In later years, Kotcheff worked in the Dick Wolf...

It’s undeniable: Jaws changed everything. 50 years ago, the release of Steven Spielberg’s summer shark thriller had people queuing round the block for screenings; the literal first ‘blockbuster’. And as well as being beloved by film fans all these decades later, it inspired legions of new filmmakers too – you’d struggle to find anyone working today who hasn’t been influenced in some way by Jaws. So, to celebrate the astonishing five-decade legacy of the film in the June 2025 issue, Empire put the call out to Hollywood legends and contemporary greats, who provided insights into what makes the film so special – the shark, the surefire direction, the screenplay, the sensational performances, and much more.

Inside the issue, director Leigh Whannell – behind The Invisible Man, Wolf Man and Upgrade – pays tribute to Spielberg’s masterful directing. “Jaws is a B-movie made with A-level craft. It had no right to be that good,...

The following contains spoilers for The Studio Episode 1, "The Promotion," now streaming on Apple TV+.

Apple TV+’s The Studio doesn’t exactly have the most novel premise. Like Ricky Gervais’ Extras before it, or even that one episode of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (“Mac and Charlie Write a Script”), the new Seth Rogen series begins with more than a bit of movie magic in its premiere, "The Promotion." The scene opens on a lakeside cabin in winter. A serene spell of gentle snowfall is abruptly broken by a man bursting through a door. Gunshots ring out. The man's been hit. He leans back against the hood of a car, then slides to the ground. The man's mysterious attacker walks over to deliver the coup de grâce. "Bang, " the director yells. The camera pulls back, fading into the same image as seen on a monitor.

The actor, who was just killed on-screen,...

"The Twilight Zone" is one of those shows so ingrained in popular culture that it's become synonymous with anything mysterious or spooky, even for people who have never seen an episode before. Conceived by Rod Serling as a method of exploring social commentary and often controversial ideas that are still relevant today, the original series first aired in 1959 and ran for five seasons. Serling wrote the bulk of the teleplays and narrated in his own inimitable way, sometimes inserting himself into an episode while dangling an ever-present cigarette. "The Twilight Zone" was also a showcase for some great actors: William Shatner, Burgess Meredith, Buster Keaton, Lee Marvin, Peter Falk, and many others made memorable impressions in classic episodes.

10 years after Serling passed away in 1975, CBS decided to resurrect the show. Although 1983's "Twilight Zone: The Movie" was a disappointment, the '80s "Twilight Zone" TV revamp was still able to...

As Game of Thrones fanatics eagerly anticipate Season 3 of House of the Dragon, not to mention the countless other spin-offs in the works, one HBO original series is the perfect placeholder. In 2005, the premium cable channel unveiledRome, a wildly ambitious and highly expensive historical epic boasting all the large-scale cinematic bells and whistles Game of Thrones has been praised for.

Winner of seven Primetime Emmy Awards, Rome is ranked #90 on IMDb's Top 250 TV Shows and holds a 96% Rotten Tomatoes audience score. Perhaps more timely and topical than ever, the lofty big-budget TV event portrays the final days of the Roman Republic as it is overtaken and turned into the Roman Empire, shifting perspectives from those fighting on the street and those making decisions in their ivory towers. In plainer terms, Rome walked so Game of Thrones could run.

'Game of Thrones' Is One of the Most Successful TV Series...

The great filmmaker Clint Eastwood turns 95 this year, and while he's spry and intelligent, it's hard to imagine anyone making many more films at that age. Fortunately, some of his earlier masterpieces are getting new 4K remasters and being released in immaculate form. Celebrating more than 50 years of his partnership with Warner Bros., which began in 1971 with the release of Dirty Harry, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment is releasing three of Eastwood's best films in 4K Uhd with meticulous special features. The four-time Academy Award winner looks better than ever in these new releases of Dirty Harry, The Outlaw Josey Wales, and Pale Rider. Learn more about the releases and their epic special features below. They'll be released on April 29.

'Dirty Harry' (1971)

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In 1975, Universal Pictures released a film that would impact the movie industry forever. Titled Jaws, it was directed by a relatively new filmmaker by the name of Steven Spielberg, who had landed the gig when producers Richard D. Zanuck and David Brown found themselves without a director for the exciting project about the aquatic monster. 50 years later, its legacy remains unquestionable, and TCM, Universal Pictures, and more, plan to throw the 50th birthday bash Jaws deserves.

As reported by Bloody Disgusting, this summer, modern viewers will get the chance to revisit Spielberg's groundbreaking movie. Jaws will return to theaters for the TCM Classic Film Festival in April. However, this won't be the only 50th anniversary presentation, as Universal is planning a nationwide re-release of the movie from Aug. 29 through Sept. 4.

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Hollywood is where imaginative stories are put on the silver screen and people with minimal backgrounds can make historical careers of glamour. But aside from inviting in people of various backgrounds and creative mindsets, Hollywood has encouraged, mostly indirectly, daring filmmakers to go against its system and attempt to make successful pictures outside of the often creatively restraining industry. Legendary directors Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas formed in the early 1970s the best example of such rebellion with American Zoetrope, an independent film company which in the days prior to each of their legendary success, was their conjoined mission to challenge the Hollywood status quo in moviemaking, inviting a diverse array of storytelling and directors to form a new kind of cinema alternative. Things to do: Subscribe to The Hollywood Insider’s YouTube Channel, by clicking here. Limited Time Offer – Free Subscription to The Hollywood Insider Click here to...

You’ve got to ask yourself one question: “Do I feel lucky?” Well, do ya, punk?

You should, because Dirty Harry is coming to 4K Ultra HD + Digital in standard and limited edition SteelBook packaging on April 29 from Warner Bros.

Inspired by the true crimes of the Zodiac Killer, the 1971 action-thriller classic has been newly restored in 4K with Hdr and Dolby Atmos TrueHD sound.

Over four hours of special features are included:

Audio Commentary by Film Historian Richard Schickel Generations and Dirty Harry (new) Lensing Justice: The Cinematography of Dirty Harry (new) Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy – Fighting for Justice Interview Gallery: Patricia Clarkson, Joel Cox, Clint Eastwood, Hal Holbrook, Evan Kim, John Milius, Ted Post, Andy Robinson, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Robert Urich Dirty Harry’s Way Dirty Harry: The Original

Dirty Harry is the first...

John Wayne won his first and only Academy Award for his memorable performance as cantankerous lawman Rooster Cogburn in True Grit. The 1969 Western marked Wayne’s last triumph within the genre, which he had virtually dominated since his star-making role in the 1939 Western film Stagecoach.

In the early 1970s, Wayne’s box-office standing was being threatened by the advance of a younger generation of Hollywood leading men, led by Clint Eastwood, whose rise to superstardom coincided with Wayne’s commercial decline. Wayne hastened this transition by turning down the titular starring role in the 1971 action thriller film Dirty Harry, which enabled Eastwood to transcend the international stardom he’d gained from Sergio Leone’s Dollars Trilogy film series and become Hollywood’s foremost action star.

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The rumor that Kathleen Kennedy is stepping down from Matt Belloni's sloppy reporting on Puck has since been debunked by the Lucasfilm CEO herself. In an interview with Deadline, Kennedy clarified, "The truth is, and I want to just say loud and clear, I am not retiring. I will never retire from movies. I will die making movies. That is the first thing that's important to say. I am not retiring."

There is no question that Star Wars would not continue to exist without Kennedy's leadership. Yet, as a prominent and powerful woman in Hollywood, she has often been the target of bad faith criticism by everyone from Belloni to anonymous, mask-wearing YouTube outrage grifters. But even before...

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This March, Tubi is bringing you a lot of entertainment, from the brilliant comedy-drama series Loudermilk to the beloved sci-fi drama series Timeless. However, for this article, we are only including the films that are coming to Tubi in the next month and have a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score. So, check out the five best movies coming to Tubi in March 2025 with a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score.

Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory (March 1) Rotten Tomatoes Score: 92% Credit – Warner Bros.

Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory is a musical fantasy film directed by Mel Stuart from a screenplay by Roald Dahl. Based on Dahl’s 1964 novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the 1971 film follows Charlie, a poor young boy who gets a chance to explore a famous but mysterious chocolate factory run by the eccentric Willy Wonka.

Monopolies, mergers, and content shuffling through various streaming services are frustrating endeavors. They utterly break the illusion of accessibility towards films and media that the lure of Ott had invited when Netflix would disrupt the space, and the rest of the studios would follow suit with their own corresponding Ott service.

If one views the acquisition of Hotstar by tech giant Jio, leading to the dissolution of their streaming service Jiocinema, and the merging of Hotstar to form JioHotstar, it is essentially to swallow the media library of Disney+Hotstar. As a result, JioHotstar currently has the Disney Library, which includes Marvel and Star Wars, as well as re-integrates live sports broadcasting. More importantly, JioHotstar is now again the home of the HBO series and the sole distributor of Peacock and Paramount + content.

If one were to logically extrapolate and make a list of the best TV shows in Jio Hotstar,...

Kathleen Kennedy could step down from Lucasfilm when her contract is up at the end of the year, at least according to one report. While her retirement has yet to be confirmed by Disney or Lucasfilm brass, even the idea of her retiring has Hollywood buzzing like a lightsaber that’s been left on for too long.

Kennedy’s tenure at the company, if it is coming to an end, has been one of ambition and controversy. As she tried to chart new territory in a galaxy far, far away and serve her corporate overlords, she frequently waded into controversy and fan unrest. Attempting to sum up her time at Lucasfilm is difficult and troublesome, met with some historic highs and almost subterranean lows. Through it all, she never gave up. When the Empirical forces attempted to squash her, she always resisted.

“She knows or knew what she was doing,...

Joe Rogan has long expressed his admiration for Robert E. Howard’s Conan the Barbarian stories and has mentioned that none of the adaptations have done a good job translating them to the screen. However, in a recent podcast episode with comedian Felipe Esparza, Rogan mentioned that Jason Momoa did a great job in the 2011 film.

While the film was a box office bomb and generally received negative reviews, Momoa’s performance was appreciated and Rogan seemed to be extremely enamored by the Game of Thrones star’s performance. He also hoped that Momoa’s Conan would be explored better in a film directed by Quentin Tarantino.

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Robert E. Howard’s Conan the Barbarian stories have been adapted many times but the most popular one is John Milius’ 1982 film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Since its creation, Western movies like Rio Bravo, Stagecoach, and The Searchershave explored a variety of timeless tropes that helped define and enrich the genre, with the "one-man army" being among the best. Long before the creation of the modern-day action genre, the Old West was a vehicle for action-adventure in cinema, entertaining millions of moviegoers for decades. While team-up movies can be fun, there's nothing quite as thrilling as seeing a lone gunslinger go against the odds and win.

Seeing heroes go against the odds can make for a great underdog story, something that's always been right at home in the Western genre. While team-up movies can be fun, nothing quite compares to watching a solo hero step up and do what's right when no one else will. From '50s classics to gritty '90s films, audiences have no shortage in the Western genre of one-man army heroes...

80s Action favourite Red Dawn gets a lavish 4K Uhd release from Altitude and we have a copy for you to win.

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An incredible cast – including Patrick Swayze (Roadhouse), C. Thomas Howell (The Outsiders), Charlie Sheen (Platoon), Lea Thompson (Back to the Future), Jennifer Grey (Dirty Dancing) and Powers Boothe (Southern Comfort) – take up arms against an invading Soviet army in Red Dawn, the superb hit 1980s actioner written a directed by cinematic powerhouse John Milius (Conan the Barbarian), and co-written by Kevin Reynolds (Waterwold).

Hugely entertaining, packed with explosive action set pieces and a line up of A-list actors to die for, this is thrilling, escapist fun of the highest order. The film is released in a 4K Uhd edition with a bonus disc filled with extras, as well as a collectable Steelbook edition and also on Blu-ray.

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It is the dawn of World War III.

To celebrate the release of Red Dawn on 4K Uhd edition, collectable Steelbook edition and Blu-ray available now, we are giving away a 4K Uhd edition!

80s Action favourite Red Dawn gets a lavish 4K Uhd release from Altitude.

An incredible cast – including Patrick Swayze (Roadhouse), C. Thomas Howell (The Outsiders), Charlie Sheen (Platoon), Lea Thompson (Back to the Future), Jennifer Grey (Dirty Dancing) and Powers Boothe (Southern Comfort) – take up arms against an invading Soviet army in Red Dawn, the superb hit 1980s actioner written a directed by cinematic powerhouse John Milius (Conan the Barbarian), and co-written by Kevin Reynolds (Waterwold).

It is the dawn of World War III. In the western mountains of America, a group of teenagers band together to defend their town, and their country, from invading Soviet forces.

Hugely entertaining, packed with explosive action set pieces and a line up of A-list actors to die for,...

Texan author Robert E. Howard (1906-1936) was a prolific writer of pulp fiction stories. In his own lifetime, his most popular stories were his Westerns. However, in the decades following his death, one of his characters in particular has come to overshadow all his other creations: Conan the Barbarian. First appearing in the pages of the iconic pulp magazine Weird Tales in 1932, Conan has gone on to become not only Howard's most popular and enduring creation, but one of the most influential characters in the Fantasy genre, period.

There are two primary reasons why Conan has remained Howard's most popular character. The first is the influence of the 1982 Conan the Barbarian movie, directed by John Milius, co-written by Milius and Oliver Stone, and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, which helped propel both Conan as a character and Schwarzenegger as an actor to new heights of popularity.

The second reason is that Conan...

The director Arnold Schwarzenegger wanted for his breakout movie, Conan the Barbarian, told the Austrian action legend he should change his signature look. Schwarzenegger first rose to prominence when he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Debut Acting in a Motion Picture for his appearance in 1976's Stay Hungry, before following it with the acclaimed bodybuilding docudrama Pumping Iron. His breakthrough role as an action icon came with 1982's John Milius sword-and-sorcery epic Conan the Barbarian, but the director could have been very different if things had gone to Schwarzenegger's original plan.

It seems that the Terminator 2 star originally wanted the project to be helmed by American animator and filmmaker Ralph Bakshi, who made the dark fantasy Fire and Ice and the animated 1978 epic The Lord of the Rings. In a recent interview with Empire Magazine, Bakshi, now retired, revealed that Schwarzenegger took him to lunch to ask him...

We hear all the time that a movie starts on the page, and while this is true in an overarching sense, for practical purposes, the process of making a motion picture intended to screen in theaters or stream into living rooms starts when you've raised enough money to hire the actors and crew and so on required to get that page-bound vision before a camera. It's at this point that you begin fretting about getting a return on your investment and, just maybe, turning a profit. In this sense, all filmmaking is risk-taking.

This is the movie business, and it didn't used to be of widespread public interest. Once in a blue moon, people would be aware that a film like Joseph L. Mankiewicz's "Cleopatra" cost a studio-devouring amount of money; meanwhile, they could tell "The Exorcist," "Jaws" and "Star Wars" were making scads of money because they could...

Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze are forever entrenched in the annals of romance cinema with their roles in Dirty Dancing. However, they would actually couple up a few years earlier in the action thriller Red Dawn in 1984. Grey would recently appear on The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast and recount a time they were filming a scene where their characters were supposed to snuggle up in a sleeping bag and become intimate with each other. The chemistry between the two stars in their later provocative hit would resonate with audiences, but their first attempt to make love on screen became so anxiety-induced that Grey said Swayze had started the scene fairly inebriated.

According to Entertainment Weekly, Grey confessed, “We were in this, you know, sleeping bag and he, I guess, was nervous or whatever. And he came into the sleeping bag drunk, and he didn’t know his lines.

Steven Spielberg is one of the most prolific filmmakers of the latter half of the 20th and 21st centuries. Behind amazing projects like Jaws and Jurassic Park, which changed how people talk about blockbusters and theatrical releases forever, Spielberg has also been deeply interested in stories about World War II. Spielberg's early upbringing was colored by the impact of WWII, like most Americans during these years. This was because he was born in 1946. It makes sense that this experience colored his later projects, as many filmmakers attempt to bring large parts of their childhood to life onscreen.

There are many great movies Spielberg produced but didn't direct within multiple genres, but he helmed almost every film project involving World War II. In recent years, he's continued moving into the producer role in television as well as cinema. Spielberg co-created the hit miniseries Band of Brothers with Tom Hanks, which was...

We all know Arnold Schwarzenegger terminated the 1980s as the premiere action movie star alongside Stallone, but what about the 90s? Beyond Total Recall, T-2: Judgment Day, and True Lies, what’s the best Arnie action flick released between 1990 and 1999? And when we mean best, we don’t mean box office success, we’re talking about old-school ass-kicking Schwarzenegger action hinting at the halcyon days that date back to Commando and Conan the Barbarian. Is it Last Action Hero? End of Days? Or is it Chuck Russell’s underrated 1996 conspiracy espionage thriller Eraser? If you said Junior, Jingle All the Way, or Batman & Robin, you may kindly show yourselves out the door this instant. Better yet, stick around, Eraser is about to wipe your memory and prove why it’s the last great Arnie action flick to blast the masses in the 1990s.

From the rocky relationship between producer and director,...

As one of the defining, if now rather jaded, movies of 1984, action-drama Red Dawn is now ready to find a new audience after landing on Prime Video on December 1. Directed by John Milius, the film brings with it an all-star cast of the decade, including Patrick Swayze, Charlie Sheen, and Jennifer Grey.

Red Dawn is set in an alternate reality, where World War III is upon the world and the U.S. is invaded by a coalition of forces. In this dangerous world, a group of teenagers forms a resistance group under the name of the "Wolverines." Armed with nothing more than a will to survive and their basic hunting skills, they fight to save their homeland, while being subjected to the harsh truths of war, friendship, and sacrifice along the way. Capturing the anxiety of war is never a joyous affair, and Red Dawn didn’t exactly manage it according to many critics.

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In this age of superhero movies, we rarely see a blockbuster take over the conversation in pop culture. Yes, I know there is Top Gun: Maverick, Barbie, and Oppenheimer but the true era of blockbusters is long gone and so are the movie stars there were times when blockbusters were all the rage and in this list, we are talking about that time, 1990s. Countless films were released in the 1990s and several of them became blockbusters but now many people don’t even remember them and even if they do they are not talking about them. So, we took it upon ourselves to create a list of the best 10 forgotten blockbusters that were released in the 1990s.

Air Force One (Rent on Prime Video) Box Office: $315.2 Million Rotten Tomatoes Score: 79% Credit – Sony Pictures

Air Force One is...

Next week’s hyper-contentious election and its face-off between virulently opposed camps has cast a fearful pall over our culture, creating an atmosphere where political terrors are outdoing the movie versions. Why hasn’t someone made a slasher pic about volunteers canvassing door-to-door at dusk?

This uneasy vibe has foregrounded an uncomfortable truth about horror films: how they often come with subtle political messages that are not always subtle enough to obscure which way they might vote in November. (To be clear, films cannot cast votes in a presidential election.) For example, you could easily argue that one of the most blatantly Republican horror movies was The Exorcist, along with the entire satanic-possession genre. In William Friedkin’s 1972 original, science and modern medicine are completely powerless to dent the demon who has possessed the innocent victim, leaving it up to the patriarchal Catholic Church to take on Pazuzu (and forge...

This article contains spoilers for the latest episode of "Star Trek: Lower Decks."

"Star Trek: Lower Decks" season 5, episode 3, "The Best Exotic Nanite Hotel," sees Lieutenant Boimler (Jack Quaid) assigned to a covert, potentially dangerous spy mission. He is to join Commander Ransom (Jerry O'Connell) and Lieutenant Commander Billups (Paul Scheer) on a mission to the Cosmic Duchess, an ultra-swanky, high-end resort-like cruise ship, floating gently through deep space. His assignment is to penetrate deep into the hotel to retrieve Admiral Milius (Toby Huss), a Starfleet officer who has gone Awol thanks to "a touch of vacation madness." The writers of "Lower Decks" missed an opportunity in not saying that he had been infected with Paradise Syndrome.

The Cosmic Duchess, however, is such a massive ship that it incorporates artificial recreations of every possible vacation-ready biome. There's a tropical beach biome, a skiing resort biome, and a water park biome.

Clint Eastwood soared to fame during the 1960s, when his role as the Man With No Name in Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy turned him into the new face of the Western genre. In the years since, the actor-director has tackled almost every genre in film, from comedy and adventure to thriller and drama. Along the way, he's built a reputation as one of Hollywood's quintessential tough guys, which has been reflected through various iconic quotes in his various roles.

Clint Eastwood has been given more one-liners and tough-guy quotes than even the best action heroes, with some of his movies producing dozens of memorable quips and jabs. Ranging from insults to warnings, the character is at his best when playing a gun-toting lawman or Western antihero, and those roles have been responsible for his most enduring lines. As Hollywood's resident badass, few people have delivered as many great lines...

Megalopolis helmer Francis Ford Coppola is set to receive the American Film Institute’s 50th Life Achievement Award, AFI’s highest honor for a career in film, during a Gala Tribute at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on April 26, 2025.

Coppola is the latest in a line of esteemed artists to receive the award. Nicole Kidman took this year’s, with Julie Andrews, Denzel Washington, George Clooney, Diane Keaton and John Williams also recently being honored.

Said Kathleen Kennedy, Chair of the AFI Board of Trustees, “Francis Ford Coppola is a peerless artist – one who has created seminal works in the canon of American film, and has also inspired generations of filmmakers who now embody his artistry and his independent spirit. AFI is honored to present him with the 50th AFI Life Achievement Award.”

Most recently seeing Lionsgate release his film Megalopolis, a Roman epic set in modern times starring Adam Driver,...

The multiple Apocalypse Now versions that have come out over the years have offered a lot of different ways to watch the acclaimed question as well as a lot of questions about which is the best version. Francis Ford Coppola's Vietnam War film stands out within the genre at least partly because of the different versions that exist and the debate that has cropped up as a result. Coppola has his own opinions of each, which can differ from and line up with some of the widely accepted attitudes towards each version.

The movie not only goes down in history as one of the best war movies ever made but one of the most controversial behind the scenes. Martin Sheen had a heart attack, Francis Ford Coppola fired a key actor and had a nervous breakdown, and Marlon Brando showed up overweight and underprepared. Despite the difficult time making the movie,...

Picture this: A big-name actor strolls on stage to intro a screening of one of his classic flicks. So far, so good. But hold up – he’s rocking a dress? Wild. The crowd’s eating it up, but then some stagehands rush in to yank it off him. He doesn’t put up much of a fight, but the audience is not having it – they’re booing like crazy. It turns out that the dress was part of the gag all along, but maybe not the awkward strip show. Little did they know, this wacky moment was just a warm-up for what was coming: Richard Dreyfuss going off about kids changing genders, the parents that push them into it, women in Hollywood (including a dig at his old co-star Barbra Streisand), and the whole #MeToo thing. Talk about a plot twist.

Was this just another celeb crash-and-burn, Hollywood chewing up and spitting out another star?...

Movie battles have been criticized by experts for accuracy and realism, and the same goes for some examples from popular TV shows. TV faces a tumultuous production cycle where accuracy may be sacrificed to produce a spectacle on time, but this becomes a more glaring issue amid recent TV trends. With more fantasy/historical epics and larger budgets than ever for TV, audiences expect that the people behind the show do at least some research to make their battle scenes legitimate.

This issue is not restricted to biographical dramas, as fantasy TV battles have also been critiqued, with the genre blowing up in movies and TV in recent years. Even series claiming some of the best TV show battles of all time have not entirely escaped such faults. Experts (or even general audience members) highlight inaccuracies and errors that many would have missed based on historical research and real military...

The 1970s were truly an extraordinary time for movie comedies, as many incredible films broke down social and political boundaries. This was an era where it became possible to joke about subjects related to sex and vulgarity that had previously been off-limits, and many iconic comedians became household names. While this was the decade in which filmmakers like Mel Brooks and Woody Allen took Hollywood by storm, even those acclaimed directors had some comedies that barely anyone remembers today.

The very best comedies of the 1970s have remained beloved classics that film lovers rewatch and enjoy countless times over. However, when digging deep to rediscover some long-forgotten hidden gems, it's striking just how many underappreciated releases with stars like John Belushi, Jack Nicholson, and Gene Wilder there are out there for those willing to wade through the rough. Although there are some 1970s comedies that have been forgotten for a reason,...