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This Star Trek: The Next Generation crew member appeared in the pilot episode before being promptly forgotten. While Tng's two-part premiere, "Encounter at Farpoint," established many aspects that continued throughout the series, some elements didn't quite stick. Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) and the crew of the USS Enterprise-d would go on to become as beloved as the cast of Star Trek: The Original Series, but it took time for the show to find itself. Lt. Tasha Yar (Denise Crosby) would only stick around for the first season of Tng and Dr. Beverly Crusher (Gates McFadden) would leave the show and then return.

Star Trek: The Next Generation's core cast was more or less established from the beginning, but season 1 cycled through several Enterprise crew members who only made one or two appearances. For example, multiple chief engineers popped up throughout Tng season 1, before Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge...

The buddy cop genre thrived in the 1980s and '90s, with mismatched characters fighting crime together. Common archetypal pairings include the conventional detective vs. the renegade cop, or the wise veteran vs. the cocky rookie. Hard Boiled, Rush Hour, and Men in Black are examples of '90s action films with unique twists on the buddy cop genre.

The buddy cop genre gained a new wave of popularity in the 1980s, and the following decade saw some classics of the genre. After Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte's 48 Hrs, studios have been throwing mismatched characters together to fight crime. The key to the buddy cop genre is the tension between the two main characters, as they are forced to work together.

One of the most common archetypal pairings of the buddy cop genre is the by-the-book stuffed shirt and the renegade cop who dispenses justice as he sees fit.

Eddie Murphy returns as Axel Foley in Netflix's Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, a legacy sequel blending nostalgia and fresh elements. The original Beverly Hills Cop remains a classic action-comedy, announcing Murphy's star to the world. The first two sequels faced diminishing returns and mixed reception.

Eddie Murphy has now made Beverly Hills Cop movies for 4 decades, with the fourth entry, Netflix's Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F taking 30 of those years to make it to the screen. By now, Murphy is far less prolific, having made only a handful of movies since Dolemite Is My Name brought him back into the limelight, but in the 1980s, he was as big a star as it's possible to imagine.

Hot off his incredibly popular run on Saturday Night Live, Murphy had already made 48 Hours and Trading Places, coolly fitting into Hollywood with the same swagger that would make Axel Foley so instantly popular.

Eddie Murphy reflects on why Beverly Hills Cop 3 flopped, citing missing characters and low stakes. Omission of key characters and clichs contributed to the failure of Beverly Hills Cop 3. Murphy hopes to redeem the franchise with Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F and potentially a fifth film.

Eddie Murphy is set to return as Axel Foley in Netflixs Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F which hits the streamer on July 3, 2024, but before that, the 63-year-old star recently took time to reflect on why Beverly Hills Cop 3 didnt connect with audiences. Released on May 25, 1994, the third outing in the Beverly Hills Cop franchise was a critical failure for a number of reasons, only managing to take in $119 million at the box office against a budget of $70 million. Its widely regarded as the worst entry in the series thus far, and currently holds only an 11% rating on Rotten Tomatoes among critics.

Jonathan Banks dishes on the Beverly Hills Cop sequels. Banks praised the original Beverly Hills Cop, which he starred in, but did not have positive things to say about the subsequent sequels. Netflix's Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F will bring back Eddie Murphy's iconic character and reunite the detective with other cast members from the beloved franchise.

Most modern-day television and streaming fans will conjure up images of Mike Ehrmantraut from Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul when they hear the name Jonathan Banks. But Banks has been a player in Hollywood for the better part of 50 years. And he also famously portrayed Victor Maitland’s (Steven Berkoff) muscle/right-hand man in the original Beverly Hills Cop. And in a recent interview, Banks dished on all of the sequels which spawned from Eddie Murphy’s 1984 hit film. Banks said in an exclusive interview with Screen Rant:

“I've...

Babylon is a movie written and directed by Damien Chazelle (First Man) starring Margot Robbie and Brad Pitt.

Babylon is a movie which from its failure in the box office recalls the echoes of Intolerance (1915), in which they built those sets with elephants that were so grandiose, in a film making style of another era and an impossible dream, disconcerting, ambitious and almost orgiastic spirit.

About the Movie

Babylon captures all of this spirit from a grandiose production which did not convince the more traditional audience.

Babylon (2022)

This movie tries to reconstruct the chaos experienced in the first Hollywood times, the arrival of sound, the excesses, disconcerting situations and the fight to not wake up from an impossible dream and, in some way, reconstruct that lost Babylon that the creator of modern cinema, David Wark Griffith tried to find too.

This is a movie with a stellar cast (Margot Robbie...

Babylon Review — Babylon (2022) Film Review, a movie written and directed by Damien Chazelle and starring Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Diego Calva, Jean Smart, Flea, Olivia Wilde, Tobey Maguire, Samara Weaving, J.C. Currais, Jimmy Ortega, Marcos A. Ferraez, Shane Powers, Phoebe Tonkin, Troy Metcalf, Jovan Adepo, Hansford Prince, Telvin Griffin, Cutty Cuthbert, Albert [...]

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Babylon is a period piece directed by Damien Chazelle – creator of First Man and Whiplash. It stars Margot Robbie and Brad Pitt.

This will be the second time the two actors appear together in a movie, the first being Once Upon A Time… in Hollywood.

Premise

Babylon tells the very interesting story of the transition from silent film to sound movies during the roaring 1920’s. A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, tracing the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of unbridled decadence and depravity in early Hollywood.

Release Date

December 23, 2022

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The Stars Margot Robbie Margot Robbie at arrivals for Terminal Premiere, ArcLight Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA May 8, 2018. Photo By: Dee Cercone/Everett Collection

Margot Robbie is an Australian actress known for the movies The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), Bombshell (2019) and Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood (2019).

Margot Elise Robbie was born on July 2, 1990 in Dalby,...

The Double Trailer. Michael Brandt‘s The Double (2011) movie trailer stars Richard Gere, Odette Annable, Stephen Moyer, Stana Katic, and Topher Grace. The Double‘s plot synopsis: “The mysterious murder of a senator bearing a distinctive trademark of Soviet assassin “Cassius” forces Paul Shepherdson, a retired CIA operative, to team with rookie FBI agent, Ben Geary, to solve the crime.”

I heard this movie trailer contains a major spoiler so I only watched the first minute of it. You’ve been warned. I am looking forward to seeing the Richard Gere, Stephen Moyer interactions in the film.

The Double also stars Martin Sheen, Chris Marquette, Tamer Hassan, Nicole Forester, Jeffrey Pierce, Jimmy Ortega, Nick Grosvenor, and Johnny Otto.

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