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Since the dawn of Hollywood, average, everyday people have been obsessed with the love lives of actors and actresses. They enjoy seeing these couples date, fall in love, flourish, wed, and have families. Sometimes, they even relish in these pairings failures. With paparazzi cameras following stars throughout their day to day lives, it’s almost impossible to avoid what they are up to at any point in time. One of the best examples of a movie star couple is Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston....

According to a publicity piece for the film Blondie Johnson, “The value of gangster films now is entertainment. Their priceless ingredients for future historians is their truth”. Over the years, the stories of fictional and real-life gangsters have greatly influenced society and culture. The popularity of gangster films has led to some of the best cinematic masterpieces ever made. Most notable among them being the Godfather trilogy. Considering how popular the gangster genre has grown over the years, it was only a matter of time, before someone made a TV series based on it....

The first Fast and the Furious film cruised into cinemas as a street racing movie for niche audiences. Its impressive box-office earnings drove studio heads to keep up the movie’s momentum by expanding the concept into a multi-film franchise, and 17 years on, the Fast & Furious universe is still pumping out blockbusters and living life a quarter mile at a time. Through a total of eight features (and one short), Fast & Furious has taken audiences across four continents, and the franchise’s next installment, Fast & Furious 9, may be adding a fifth continent to that list....

Situational comedy, often referred to as simply “sitcom,” has been one of the most popular and well-recognized genres in the history of television. While many TV enthusiasts associate this genre with multi-camera shows such as Seinfeld, Friends, and The Big Bang Theory, the genre also encompasses several other situational comedies that are shot in single-camera mode, like The Office, Parks and Recreation, and It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia. Overall, sitcoms have withstood the test of time and are still some of the most popular shows on TV....

Some people may not think of the iPhone 6s as a device that changed everything, but it did bring some important improvements such as the first 4K camera on an iPhone, Live Photos, and 3D Touch. While today’s iPhones still record 4K video and capture Live Photos, none of them have 3D Touch anymore – which is unfortunate since this was one of the best technologies ever created by Apple....

According to a recent report, Academy members have said that they wouldn’t be surprised if the Oscars Popular Filmcategory gets scrapped completely. In early August, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences revealed their plans to instate a new category that would honor “popular films” at the 2019 Oscars. The Academy has been tight-lipped regarding specific details about the new category, but it seems to be tailored for big summer blockbusters and superhero films....

[SPOILERS ahead for those not caught up on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.] – Phil Coulson has been part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe since day 1. His appearance in Iron Man quickly made him a fan-favorite supporting character and was the reason he ended up appearing in two more Phase 1 films prior to The Avengers. Obviously, the battle of New York took a toll on him, with Loki ending his life, but Agents of S....

I once wrote that I’m not a fan of in-ear headphones. I’ve always preferred the “universal fit” design of regular AirPods. But while I had a great time using my AirPods 3, I still had to carry my AirPods Max with me in some situations – especially when I was going on a plane trip. Turns out, AirPods Pro 2 are the perfect replacement for the AirPods Max that I didn’t know I needed....

Not quite a sequel, not quite an original property, let’s take a look at the spinoff. When a supporting character or idea is spun off into its own movie. It happens more often in TV, sure, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen in movies, too. Spinoff films can be hit or miss – we either love them or hate them. Whether spinoffs are meant to revitalize a classic or expand the reach of a current hit, there are plenty of them out there for viewers of all tastes....

Hollywood keeps looking for material to turn into screenplays and what better place to look at than the bookshelves? Novels and stories offer fully-fledged plots and characters that already have a life, which can then be adapted for the big screen. There are those classic films that everyone and their mums know were based on books: the Harry Potter movies, Pride and Prejudice, Oliver Twist, Les Misérables and so on and so forth....

Stuber is either a film that plays dangerously with the idea of a brand tie-in movie or it’s just a film based around a funny title about a guy called Stu who drives an Uber. It’s had a lot of mixed reviews and while it was never going to bring in billions at the box office, Stuber’s got a draw in its two main stars who are both on the up....

Nicolas Winding Refn’s series Too Old to Die Young is one of the strangest things currently available on streaming services. Not only does the director consider it to be a 13-hour movie, but its artistic and auteur-driven execution of an otherwise straightforward tale of revenge in an unforgiving criminal underworld leaves many of its plotlines unresolved. The ending to Martin Jones’ (Miles Teller) story – and those of the adjacent characters – left a lot of viewers either confused or annoyed because of how little is explained or how lacking the whole experience felt....

Before Roswell, New Mexico premiered this year, a different version of the story existed 20 years earlier. In the late 90s, Roswell debuted on the WB, inspired by the Roswell High book series developed at the same time. The series followed a group of teenagers in the New Mexico town as they discovered that not everyone who lived there was completely human. Main characters Max, Isabel, Michael, and Tess were alien-human hybrids hidden on Earth to keep them safe from the enemies of their home planet....

It has often been said that the Marvel Cinematic Universe is to today’s moviegoing public what the Star Wars trilogy was to audiences of the ‘70s and ‘80s. While this has been highly debated, since Star Wars literally changed the way that movies were made and it’s unclear how lasting the MCU’s impact will be since we’re still in the middle of it, there are some elements of the MCU that appear to have been inspired by the original Star Wars trilogy....

It should come as no surprise that the number one goal of major movie studios is to turn a profit. While smaller studios will sometimes produce passion projects more for the sake of art than money-making, the major studios (e.g. 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros., Universal, etc.) are far more concerned with the bottom line. They want to make the next Avengers ($623 million at the domestic box office on a $220 million budget), not the next Fantastic Four ($56 million on a $120 million budget)....

Gremlins, released in 1984, had something of a dream team behind it– it was written by Chris Columbus (The Goonies, Adventures in Babysitting); directed by Joe Dante (Twilight Zone: The Movie); scored by 18-time Academy Award nominee Jerry Goldsmith; and overseen by none other than Steven Spielberg. It debuted at #2 at the box office, but to be fair, it opened next to Ghostbusters, and remarkably, it only fell about one million dollars short of the top spot....

US mobile carriers are trying to reduce 5G aviation fears by offering to temporarily reduce base station power across the country, with output very tightly limited near airports. They propose to do this for six months, to allow time for the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) to carry out further studies. The situation appears to be rather a bizarre one given the complete lack of evidence for any risks of interference with aircraft …...

It may be a piece of junk to some people, but the Millennium Falcon is the fastest ship in the galaxy, as Han Solo so proudly proclaimed. After all, it made the Kessel Run in under 12 parsecs (however long that is)! But is it the fastest ship in all of sci-fi? Probably not. In fact, there are a handful of ships that are faster than the Falcon, even at faster-than-light speeds – and a few more that come awfully close....

French filmmaker Luc Besson is a bit of an underappreciated titan of the film industry, and even if you’re not aware of it you’ve almost certainly seen a movie or two that was directed or at least penned by the cinematic powerhouse. Besson is particularly skilled when it comes to creating unique science fiction and action films, so it comes as no real surprise that most of the films that he has written/directed feature some seriously memorable badass characters....

iOS 15.2 is out with a bevy of interesting new features including the Apple Music Voice Plan and Legacy Contacts support. Apple launches a new app for Android this week in the form of the Tracker Detector for identifying nearby AirTags. Universal Control is officially delayed and the tvOS 15.2 has a few cool surprises inside. Plus, Zac has an update in the ongoing iCloud Photos saga. Sponsored by BetterHelp: As a listener, you’ll get 10% off your first month by visiting our sponsor at BetterHelp....