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And answer Ben Affleck’s immortal query, ‘Would it be easier to train astronauts to be oil drillers, or oil drillers to become astronauts?’
This Netflix action film, starring Charlize Theron, is least interesting when it’s playing along with genre conventions. But when it focuses on its flawed, vibrantly alive characters, it’s electric.
They may have only gotten chic in recent years, but in some form or another, the backyard mini-pool has been around forever
In the mid-1990s, the sitcom star and hip-hop lightweight was simply the Fresh Prince. But with ‘Independence Day,’ he remade himself as one of the all-time best summer action heroes.
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