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1 week ago | 
cultureslate.com | Alison Gorin
Over the next few decades, this has become commonplace. Dumbo, from 1941, has been remade into a live-action movie in 2019 with CGI and real-life human characters. Beauty and the Beast and The Little Mermaid, hailed as part of Disney’s Renaissance comeback movies from the 1990s were remade into live-action coupled with CGI animation in 2017 and 2023, respectively.
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1 month ago | 
cultureslate.com | Alison Gorin
Although the weather was chillier than usual for mid-May in Southeast Michigan, there was definitely a warmth inside the Suburban Showplace Collection in Novi. Just walking through the parking lot showed that there were plenty of people (as evidenced from the amount of time it took to find a parking spot) from many different places who came together to have fun celebrating all sorts of fandoms. They came from neighboring Midwest states like Ohio and Indiana, and as far away as Arizona and Quebec.
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1 month ago | 
cultureslate.com | Alison Gorin
It’s May, and the stirrings of Spring are finally in the air! As the warm breezes blow, perhaps our imaginations are pulled to our favorite far-away galaxy - the Star Wars Galaxy! Although climate change has made planet Earth warmer in the past decades, we still don’t hold a candle to the warmer planets in the Star Wars Galaxy. In honor of our warmer weather, let’s take a look at some of the warmer planets of Star Wars.
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2 months ago | 
cultureslate.com | Alison Gorin
As we enter into the warm and pleasant Spring season, there is a day that beckons for us to take a moment and reflect on a not-so-pleasant part of history: the Holocaust, the systemic murder of six million Jews throughout Europe and North Africa, not to mention, the murder of many homosexuals, Slavic peoples, Roma people, Communists, and whoever else the Nazi regime thought would be a threat to the Third Reich.
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Mar 30, 2025 | 
cultureslate.com | Alison Gorin
Both Cage and John Travolta were praised for their acting skills in Face/Off, where director John Woo guided them to great performances of … each other after going through secret face-switching surgery to find out where a bomb is hidden in Los Angeles.
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Mar 23, 2025 | 
cultureslate.com | Alison Gorin |Jon Bernthal
Although Farrell has been in the DC universe before, there isn’t a chance of an overlap: Matt Reeves is in charge of the Batman/Penguin corner, while James Gunn and Peter Safran run the Sgt. Rock world. Joining up with Guadagnino from previous projects Challengers and Queer is scriptwriter Justin Kuritzkes.
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Feb 25, 2025 | 
cultureslate.com | Alison Gorin
But, why? When the new Holder of the Butterfly Miraculous ultra-akumatizes her victims, there is no indication of her identity. She does not identify herself to her victims as Gabriel Agreste did, nor does she even have a very visible shape - she is a mysterious outline, and her voice is disguised. Even when her plans are defeated, the audience does not see her as she angrily stalks away the way we did when it was Gabriel.
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Feb 25, 2025 | 
cultureslate.com | Alison Gorin
For us Muggles looking for another glimpse of the Wizarding World, our wait may not be too long in the coming: HBO is actively working on a Harry Potter TV series. J.K. Rowling, the author of the best-selling books and executive producer for the upcoming television series, is pleased with the direction this new endeavor is taking, saying it is “preserving the integrity" [of her books] and "will allow for a degree of depth and detail only afforded by a long-form television series".
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Feb 12, 2025 | 
cultureslate.com | Alison Gorin
Many of us watch the Super Bowl for the commercials, no matter which teams are playing. This year’s offerings haven’t disappointed me, especially seeing the movie trailers. Watching some of these makes me a lot more excited to go to a theater than wondering who is going to win the big game! How To Train Your Dragon (June 13) Real-life Mason Thames, playing the Viking Hiccup, meets animated Toothless in the trailer that dropped tonight.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
cultureslate.com | Alison Gorin
Well, another year has come and gone. The movie industry is cautiously optimistic despite the lower box-office numbers compared to 2023, feeling that there is an upswing after the devastating years of Covid-related low attendance, straight-to-streaming, and the writers’ and actors’ strikes. 2024 was able to produce quality movie making, and by the second half of the year, people began going back to the theaters. Here we will take a look at the top seven movies of 2024.
