James Cameron’s 2009’s Avatar is the most successful movie of all time, raking in nearly $3 billion. But still, some people wondered, as they waited more than a decade for its sequel: Did the world ...
Part of the genius of Roger Corman was packaging his films as double features. Not of This Earth played with Attack of the Crab Monsters, which must have made for a very scary evening. The very 1950s ...
Douglass’ plan worked: Although at the time Lincoln couldn’t “conceive of the United States as a biracial society,” as Foner points out, “his views will begin to move forward very dramatically.” Foner ...
Archie Bunker, created by Norman Lear and played by Carroll O’Connor, was groundbreaking in his unlikability — Lear gave him enough rope, every episode, to lay bare the ignorance of his ...
Phil Silvers (center) played on of TV’s first unlikable lead characters on CBS’s The Phil Silvers Show. – Credit: C/O Phil Silvers was perhaps TV’s first unlikable lead characters: His Sgt. Bilko was ...
Very rich people are generally unlikable lead characters — even when they’re knocked into desperate financial straits, like the Rose family of Schitt’s Creek. Their haughtiness, helplessness and ...