
Jesse Hassenger
Freelance Writer and Editor at Freelance
Writer & editor for hire. // Associate Editor @PasteMovies // https://t.co/FX1m5iW1lE // DMs open // Pretty good with words but words won't save your life.
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decider.com | Jesse Hassenger
Is the Karate Kid gaining on his spiritual predecessor? The 1984 movie The Karate Kid was essentially a junior-level version of the underdog sports drama Rocky, even sharing director John G. Avildsen and composer Bill Conti, with a New Jersey teenager swapped in for a Philly-bred soulful bruiser.
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thedailybeast.com | Jesse Hassenger
Now that Christopher McQuarrie has been promoted from Jack Reacher writer-director to full-time Tom Cruise Whisperer, Scott Frank has lost his competition as premier screenwriter and sometime director in the field of adapting literary pulp.
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yahoo.com | Jesse Hassenger
There’s a fine melodramatic dilemma at the heart of the limited series The Better Sister:Adam (Corey Stoll) is married to Nicky (Elizabeth Banks), an unstable addict. When Adam starts to see Nicky as a potential danger to the life of their young son Ethan, he cuts familial ties with her—and eventually Nicky’s more responsible sister Chloe (Jessica Biel) steps in. Years later, Ethan (Maxwell Acee Donovan) is a teenager, having grown up with Chloe as his mother figure.
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1 week ago |
thedailybeast.com | Jesse Hassenger
There’s a fine melodramatic dilemma at the heart of the limited series The Better Sister:Adam (Corey Stoll) is married to Nicky (Elizabeth Banks), an unstable addict. When Adam starts to see Nicky as a potential danger to the life of their young son Ethan, he cuts familial ties with her—and eventually Nicky’s more responsible sister Chloe (Jessica Biel) steps in. Years later, Ethan (Maxwell Acee Donovan) is a teenager, having grown up with Chloe as his mother figure.
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pastemagazine.com | Jesse Hassenger
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. You kinda have to hand it to Karate Kid: Legends for deploying a tremendous generational bait-and-switch. Anyone catching this multi-purpose sequel out of nostalgic desire to see original Karate Kid Ralph Macchio on the big screen again, now teamed up with Jackie Chan’s character from the 2010 Karate Kid remake, may be surprised to find a different former teen idol taking center stage, at least at first.
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I'm sure I've shared this before but now that I've crossed off THE KARATE KID (2010), here are the $100 million+ domestic grossers of the 2010s that I've never seen: 1 Shrek Forever After 2 Wonder 3 Rio 2 4 Hop 5 Journey 2: Mysterious Island 6 Annabelle: Creation

As someone who owns all of Arcade Fire's albums, I was surprised by the degree to which they cast a pall over last night's SNL. Jane Wickline, tho. https://t.co/OX9CGXO4h0

POKER FACE and THE FOUR SEASONS have cracked it: The secret to great TV is to play Vivaldi and refer to They Might Be Giants.