Jordan Williams

Stephen King infamously hates Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of his novel The Shining, but his disdain may really come down to the biggest distinction between the book and movie: the Overlook Hotel’s motivation. The...

Sofia Coppola’s Mary Corleone is infamously one of the most hated characters in The Godfather Part III (1990), but the original casting of the talented Winona Ryder could have saved the part. The Godfather 3 is the...

Religion was an important aspect of Game of Thrones that contributed to several core character arcs as well as connecting and dividing the houses throughout the series’ eight seasons. While the Faith of the Seven has...

The House ghosts in the Harry Potter movies each contribute to an important part of their Houses' pasts, but unfortunately, the tragic contexts for their continued presence at Hogwarts were excluded. The first Harry...

Stranger Things has introduced many lovable characters like Max and Robin over the past two seasons, but season 4 should avoid adding any more new characters that distract from the core group’s unitary Upside Down...

Kill Bill Vol. 2’s biggest plot twist reveals The Bride’s daughter to be alive and well with Bill, but that wasn’t always how Tarantino envisioned the ending until Uma Thurman's daughter inspired a change....

Citizen Kane has lots its perfect Rotten Tomatoes score, with an 80-year-old negative review causing it to drop from 100% to 99&, but that mostly just shows the problems with the website’s rating system. It...

Stranger Things revealed Hopper to be alive in Russia with a season 4 teaser, but season 3's callback to Will's season 1 death fakeout already implied he would survive, though in a dangerous setting. Stranger Things...

Creed Bratton’s mysterious background is typically revealed by one-off lines throughout The Office, and a couple of scenes indicate he may have been a Manson Family member before working at Dunder Mifflin. The Manson...

A deleted scene from Inglourious Basterds reveals the background behind Donny “The Bear Jew'' Donowitz's (Eli Roth) renowned baseball bat - and where the Basterds got their name. The movie is one of Tarantino’s...

Throughout Jordan Peele’s Get Out, there are several Easter eggs to the classic horror movies that influenced the director. Get Out revitalized the horror and psychological thriller genres while also paying homage to...

One of The Office's most enjoyable recurring gags is Creed Bratton's poor memory, often exemplified by the wrong names and descriptions he gives his coworkers. The Office had a successful run with 9 seasons, which...

Halloween famously kicked off the slasher fad in the 1980s, but the subgenre’s history generally overlooks Jaws 2 which ironically premiered the same year with its own slasher villain. Jaws 2 is the sequel to one of...

How I Met Your Mother is finally getting its long-awaited spin-off How I Met Your Father, and here’s everything we know so far. How I Met Your Mother follows Ted Mosby recounting how he met their mother to his...

The trailer for the upcoming The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, based on the real-life Arne Cheyenne Johnson murder case, reveals key differences between the actual case’s events and those portrayed in the...

Since they were 8 months old, the twins shared so many movies, shows, and roles that Wikipedia gave them one shared page to make it easier. The twins famously played the single role of Julian in Big Daddy (1999)...

Tim Burton has been known as Hollywood’s oddball who creates eerily fun films, but the gothic fantasy Edward Scissorhands (1990) offers a more personal story inspired by Burton’s own life. Burton grew up around...

Sarah and Nyles eventually escape Palm Springs' time loop, but what happened to the other trapped wedding guest, Roy? Palm Springs became one of 2020’s most celebrated movies, introducing a clever twist to the time...

That '70s Show holiday episodes tend to feature homages to the best Christmas films, with the movie reference from the season 6 episode “Christmas” being an Easter egg to a pivotal Gremlins scene. That '70s...

Though not directed by Quentin Tarantino, True Romance (1993) has several connections in his shared movie universe - including to characters in Reservoir Dogs (1992) and Inglourious Basterds (2009). Tarantino wrote the...

Why you should use defaultdict in PythonPhoto by Sigmund on Unsplash.Here’s the situation:We have a list of numbers and we want to find the number of occurrences of each number in the list.The way I normally go...