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Clint Eastwood's dark Dirty Harry sequel Sudden Impact is really a gender-flipped remake of a controversial 1974 hit. Dirty Harry is one of the rare Clint Eastwood movie franchises, but after the third entry in 1976, the star seemed done with the character. It was only when a Warner Bros poll revealed audiences wanted Harry back that Clint returned for another sequel. This saw Harry on the case of a serial killer who shoots victims in both the groin and forehead, and while Sudden Impact is famous for Harry's "Make my day" catchphrase, it's perhaps the bleakest of the series.

Harry eventually discovers the killer is artist Jennifer Spencer (Sondra Locke), who is tracking down and murdering the gang who assaulted her and her sister years before. While the Death Wish movies and Taxi Driver covered similar themes, Sudden Impact sets itself apart by...

Late Motörhead guitarist Fast Eddie Clarke is the subject of a forthcoming 320-page biography and a 4-cd box set, both arriving September 6th via BMG.

Make My Day: The Rock ‘n’ Roll Story of Fast Eddie Clarke was penned by rock journalist Kris Needs with Clarke’s widow Mariko Fujiwara. The book follows Clarke’s life and career from his formative years in the burgeoning UK rock scene, through his legendary run with Motörhead from 1976 to 1982 and his subsequent hard rock/Aor band Fastway and beyond.

“Mariko and Eddie’s closest friends provide detailed insights into Eddie’s life, including growing up in Twickenham, topping charts with Motörhead, overcoming personal problems, finding happiness with Mariko and becoming the smitten co-owner of Cookie the Maltese-Shihtzu cross,” reads the book’s press release.

As for the author, Kris Needs served as the editor of one of the UK’s earliest music zines,...

You know the scene. Heck, you've probably even played it over and over in your own head, with yourself in the Clint Eastwood role. Inspector "Dirty Harry" Callahan walks into a diner for a cup of coffee, inadvertently walking into a robbery attempt. Wrong place, wrong time... for the robbers. Harry kills all but one, who attempts to escape by taking a waitress hostage. Through gritted teeth, Harry lifts his .44 Magnum and utters, "Go ahead, make my day." From an actor with a veritable cornucopia of memorable quips over his storied career, "Make my day" stands above them all, placing sixth on AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes. And he didn't even say it first!

When Nicolas Cage won the Best Actor Oscar in 1995 for his devastating portrayal of a heartbroken alcoholic with a death wish in Mike Figgis' "Leaving Las Vegas," he was 31 years old and soaring into the prime of an already impressive career. He had access to the best screenplays in town and the interest of just about every A-list director. So Cage did what any reasonable movie star would do: he made three of the decade's zaniest blockbuster action movies.

For those of us who fell in love with Cage as the good-hearted punk Randy in Martha Coolidge's lovable 1983 film "Valley Girl," he kind of owed us. Though he's utterly brilliant in "Leaving Las Vegas," Figgis' grimy drama makes "The Lost Weekend" look like "Arthur." It's a brutal, frankly unrewarding ordeal. For close to two hours, we watch Cage's financially/personally ruined screenwriter grimly follow through on his promise to speedily drink himself to death.

Cage reveals the backstory behind his iconic line "Put the bunny back in the box" from Con Air, explaining that he wrote it to make a ridiculous twist on the tradition of iconic action movie lines like Clint Eastwood's "Make my day." Con Air is often overlooked among Cage's '90s action movies, but it marked his second venture into the genre and showcased his ability to balance absurdity and genuine emotion in his performance. The on-set antics of the Con Air cast, including competitions and testosterone-driven contests, highlight the film's underlying ridiculousness and contribute to its cult following among Cage fans.

Nicolas Cage's most iconic Con Air line gets a surprisingly detailed explanation from the Oscar winner. The 1997 action-thriller saw Cage star as a former Army Ranger sentenced to prison after accidentally killing someone and, while flying to Alabama for his release, the convicts aboard the...

This post contains spoilers for the "Dirty Harry" films.

Don Siegel's "Dirty Harry" changed cop movies forever upon its release in 1971. Capitalizing on the "law and order" craze stoked by President Richard Nixon, which was a reaction to the perceived anarchy of the various protest movements of the 1960s, Clint Eastwood's Miranda rights-flouting Harry Callahan fed conservative moviegoers a big, juicy slab of red meat. It also allowed the actor to flourish in a genre outside of Westerns, thus expanding his appeal and turning him into one of the most bankable stars in Hollywood.

"Dirty Harry" ends with Callahan, having caught and killed (in self-defense) a vicious serial killer, hurling his badge into a quarry. Throughout the movie, his hard-driving, occasionally extrajudicial methods, which could've resulted in a swift arrest and saved multiple lives, are decried by his superiors. It appears the inspector has had enough. Audiences, however,...

Hip-hop heiress Coi Leray had a crossover moment with “Players,” a boastful track that uses the synth arpeggios that streaked across the pioneering Grandmaster Flash cut “The Message” to flip the script 2023-style: “Girls is players too,” Leray declares amidst boasts about her womanly prowess and warnings to any prospective suitors whose bank accounts might not be up to snuff. Leray’s posturing and the immediately identifiable sample helped propel “Players” to the top ten of the Hot 100.

On her second album, she front-loads the proceedings with tweaks to the...

Coi Leray is celebrating the release of her new album Coi with the video for “Get Loud,” featuring a cameo by U.S. Women’s National Team player Trinity Rodman in time for next month’s FIFA Women’s World Cup.

“So happy to have worked with @coileray for the ‘Get Loud’ music video presented by @bose To Make The Bop Of The Summer ,” Rdoman wrote on Instagram alongside a clip from the track’s visual.

The video follows the soccer star in Leray meeting in a soccer locker room...

Coi Leary’s second album is on the way. On Friday, the rap star revealed that she’ll release her album Coi on June 23, featuring several star collaborations.

Among the artists featured on the record are David Guetta, Saucy Santana, Giggs, Lola Brooke, and Skillibeng.

After announcing the LP, Leray teased the release of “Make My Day,” which samples the Nineties hit “Pump the Jam” by Technotronic. “One of my favorite songs off my project…” she wrote on Instagram, teasing the song. She has yet to reveal the upcoming project’s tracklist.

Make My Day is an animated movie directed by Makoto Honda. The screenplay is written by Yasuo Ohtagaki.

Make My Day is a Japanese animated series that takes us to a sort of Half Life (the videogame) in a strange planet where a dangerous plague is spreading that will affect humanity. The only ones that reach this place are the worst criminals, condemned and alone fighting against a very real threat.

Another anime proposal on Netflix that lately is providing us with a couple of them every week (Record of Ragnarok was the latest one). This time, a very different kind of offering with much more computer animation, more modern and less “classic”, but will surely find its audience in the endless and thrilling world of Japanese anime.

Alégrame el Día (2023)

So now you know what lies in store for us: creatures that rise from the inside of a frozen...

Make My Day is an animated movie directed by Makoto Honda. The screenplay is written by Yasuo Ohtagaki.

Storyline

On a cold planet of ice and snow, mysterious creatures suddenly have appeared from the dark underground and have begun to attack the inhabitants. Can humanity survive the terror lurking beyond the horizon?

Alégrame el Día (2023) Release Date

February 2, 2023

Where to Watch Make my Day

Netflix

Make my Day (2023) Cast

Ayahi Takagaki / Marie

Masaomi Yamahashi / Jim

Akio Otsuka / Commander Bark

Kazuhiro Yamaji / Walter...

February is yet another stacked month for Netflix.

Not only are there returning TV shows, including the Penn Badgley-starring drama You, there is a host of new releases hoping to find success on the streaming service.

Below, we have compiled a list of every single movie and TV show coming to both Netflix in the UK and US.

Find the full list of everything being removed from the platform this month here.

Nb: The Independent compiled this list with help from What’s on Netflix.

UK

Original Titles

TV

2 February

Freeridge season one

3 February

Class season one

8 February

The Exchange season one

9 February

Dear David season one

My Dad the Bounty Hunter season one

You season four, part one

10 February

Love to Hate You season one

14 February

In Love All Over Again season one

Perfect Match season one

15 February

#NoFilter season one

Eva Lasting season one

The Law According...

February is yet another stacked month for Netflix.

Not only are there returning TV shows, including the Penn Badgley-starring drama You, there is a host of new releases hoping to find success on the streaming service.

Below, we have compiled a list of every single movie and TV show coming to both Netflix in the UK and US.

Find the full list of everything being removed from the platform this month here.

Nb: The Independent compiled this list with help from What’s on Netflix.

UK

Original Titles

TV

2 February

Freeridge season one

3 February

Class season one

8 February

The Exchange season one

9 February

Dear David season one

My Dad the Bounty Hunter season one

You season four, part one

10 February

Love to Hate You season one

14 February

In Love All Over Again season one

Perfect Match season one

15 February

#NoFilter season one

Eva Lasting season one

The Law According...

In February 2023, Netflix is bringing a documentary about a wealthy pet, the spinoff series of On My Block, season 4 of a popular thriller TV series, a rom-com starring two beloved comedy actors, season 3 of a successful action-adventure TV series, and a lot more. Netflix started 2023 strong with the release of the mystery thriller The Pale Blue Eye, the noir-thriller TV series Copenhagen Cowboy, season 2 of Vikings: Valhalla, the sitcom That ‘90s Show, the comedy movie You People, and the documentary Pamela, a love story.

On the licensed content front, February will see the addition of a wide variety of titles, most notably the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Damien Chazelle’s La La Land, the musical comedy Lye, Lyle, Crocodile, and the horror movie Ouija, and of course, there will be a lot of original content to choose from. Among the original titles Netflix subscribers will get to enjoy in...

“Make My Day”, directed by Makoto Honda, adapting the works of Yasuo Ohtagaki, the creator of “Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt”, stars Masaomi Yamahashi in a battle between humans and mysterious creatures on an icy planet, streaming February 2, 2023 on Netflix:

“…the snowy, ice-covered planet ‘Coldfoot’ is home to a precious energy-rich ore called ‘Sig’.

“On the surface, the planet seems to be a crime-free utopia, but in reality prisoners are used for back-breaking Sig mining.

“‘Jim’, a young prison guard, rushes to the site of a sudden mining accident to find a mysterious creature attacking the humans…”

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