The ones who were there 47 years ago remember it clearly: Han shot first. But in nearly every version of 1977’s Star Wars: A New Hope that you can find today, Harrison Ford’s charming smuggler was a little slow to the trigger in his face-off against Greedo — one of the many changes that director George Lucas made to the...
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'The Matrix' defined cyberpunk for a generation, but it's Cronenberg's grotesque vision of the future, released just weeks later, that will haunt you long after the credits roll.
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Subjects like nuclear armageddon are simply too important to be taken seriously.
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