Jeffrey Speicher

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During its five-season run on HBO, co-creators David Simon and Ed Burns' The Wire delivered a menagerie of streetwise criminals who captured our imagination as they tried to survive on the mean streets of Baltimore. But if you were forced to pick one that resonated more than the rest, it would have to be Idris Elba's turn as Stringer Bell.

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It seems fitting that Keanu Reeves, a guy who rose to stardom playing one half of the slacker duo Bill & Ted, would love the Coen Brothers classic dramedy, The Big Lebowski. In a recent piece for Esquire magazine, his Matrix co-star Carrie-Anne Moss asked Reeves if he would recommend some movies that she would enjoy with her teen kids. The John Wick star didn't just throw out a few titles; he wrote out a diversified list and gave it to her.

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Shea Whigham is one of the busiest actors in Hollywood these days. The veteran performer of over 50 movies is currently starring opposite Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible —The Final Reckoning as Briggs, the man tasked with chasing down Ethan Hawke. But years before, he was part of a stacked ensemble cast that included Tom Hiddleston, Brie Larson, Samuel L. Jackson, John C. Reilly, and John Goodman in 2017's Kong: Skull Island.

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I would argue that Taylor Sheridan is the most prolific, preeminent, and most accomplished creator in television these days. Thanks to hits like Yellowstone, 1923, Lioness, and Tulsa King under his belt, few are churning out shows as popular as he is. I will also go to the mat in defense of the undeniable fact that Sam Elliott is the quintessential mustachioed cowboy in the entertainment industry, and has been for years.

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Charles Dance has had an extraordinary career playing fiendishly stuffy English villains. Most of the world knows the character actor as Tywin Lannister from Game of Thrones, but in 1986, he was an unknown Brit who took on Eddie Murphy in what was a bit of an outlier for him in an era where everything he touched turned to gold (no pun intended). Director Michael Ritchie's The Golden Child is an underrated and underseen film (especially considering it was in the middle of his heyday in the 80s).