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Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy star in Mad Max: Fury Road (2015).

Nearly 40 years after introducing audiences to Max Rockatansky, director George Miller resurrected his dystopian series and created one of the most emotional action movies ever made with 'Mad Max: Fury Road.'

Scott Beggs








Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, and John Hannah in The Mummy (1999).

Since 1932, 'The Mummy' has been one of Universal Studios’s most successful and enduring franchises—and the 1999 version starring Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz was no exception.

Todd Gilchrist
Dolly Parton will always love you, but she doesn't love you love you.

Love songs are like Rorschach tests—or, to put it more romantically, puffy clouds. We hear in them what we want, and that leaves lots of room for misinterpretation.

Kenneth Partridge


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Even the most cinematically inclined of us may not have heard of the debut films of some of today’s most well-known directors.

Kathleen Elise