True story: A few years ago I saw a screenshot of some viral Chris Evans quotes going around on Twitter (which is what that website was called at that time), which I read, not having any idea where or when they were from. The quote getting the most attention was
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Maul, formerly known as Darth Maul, is The Great Gazoo of Star Wars villains. It's at this point it hits me that you may not know who The Great Gazoo even is, though it does appear he still makes appearances in modern media from time to time. The
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I've been thinking about that day a lot recently, December 16, 2019 ... now, somehow, over six years ago. Obviously a lot happened in the coming months right after that day that would overshadow just "seeing a bad movie." There was something both innocent and sad about
Although this is being sent out on April Fool’s Day, pay no heed, the only fool in this whole endeavor was me. This has been, by far, the most requested “post that had been deleted from the internet” request since The Hard Pass was launched in February. Well, here
This piece is literally 15 years in the making. I've been obsessed with one particular plot point of Steven Soderbergh's Ocean’s Twelve since I first saw it 22 years ago (wait, what?) and anytime I've interviewed someone who was involved in the making
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Jamie Dornan hosted SNL UK today and the wonderful “Edgar’s Prayer” sequence from the also wonderful Barb and Star Go To Vista Del Mar is being shared on social media like it should be shared. This originally published at Uproxx on February 26, 2021 and I just assumed this
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Thank you for your continued support of The Hard Pass. In a perfect world I would write this newsletter free for everyone. The day I am independently wealthy I will vow to do this. (Or try to go to Mars, it’s one or the other, who’s to say?
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Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice is ten years old now, somehow. A movie that, at the same time, seems more recent and are we sure it didn’t come out in 2013? The 10-years-later reappraisal of Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice seems to be about what it was
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No one will be able to complain about not getting to see enough Daredevil actually wearing his Daredevil costume in the eight episodes of the second season of Daredevil: Born Again. There's certainly no, "Woe is me, I don't want to be Daredevil anymore and
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Watching Saturday Night Live UK felt like I had gone back in time, righted some sort of wrong, and was confident that I made made it to the past and back to the present undetected. I then turn on SNL to see what Mikey Day, Kenan Thompson and Andrew Dismukes
The Hard Pass turned six weeks old yesterday, so, again, thank you to everyone who supports this endeavor. I like doing it! And as long as you like reading it, I will continue to write these posts. I realize things are, um, fraught right now. I basically live my life
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In honor of Bruce Willis's birthday, for this week's "May the Bridges I Burn Light the Way Thursday" I will share the story of the time Bruce Willis called me out of the blue. This really happened and that's not an exaggeration.