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Quotes And Leadership Lessons From The Crow 2024

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The Crow is a character who has been around for a long time. Initially created by comic book artist and writer James O’Barr to deal with the death of his fiancée, The Crow has starred in multiple film and television adaptations.

Brandon Lee’s (Bruce Lee’s son) take on the character is the most recognizable and tragic. Brandon Lee died on the set of the first The Crow movie when he was shot with what was thought to be an unloaded weapon. It wasn’t, and Lee died. The original The Crow movie had four sequels. 

Man covered in tattoos. Pulling a trench coat around his shoulders

In 2024, we’ve now seen a reboot of The Crow. Starring Bill Skarsgård as Eric/The Crow, the movie follows his path of vengeance after he and his love, Shelly (FKA twigs), are brutally murdered to cover up another violent murder. Eric comes back with vengeance and love on his mind. He’s going to get the people who killed his girl.  Read more...

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Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Alien: Romulus

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Alien: Romulus harkens back to the days of old. There are no fancy, schmancy visuals. It’s a great story with engaging characters and lots of horror/suspense.

This is how movies should be done.

Alien creature with a mini head coming out of its mouth looking at a woman turning away

Directed by Fede Alvarez and written by Rodo Sayagues and Dan O’Bannon, the film takes viewers back to a different time. From what I can remember of the original Alien movies, everything felt right as an Alien movie. 

As a young group of miners explore a broken-down space station, everything goes wrong. They awaken Xenomorphs that had been placed in cryo-stasis. It’s an intense ride from there. And it’s a ride you can take away a multitude of leadership lessons.

Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Alien: Romulus

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Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Borderlands

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Borderlands is based on the equally outrageous video game of the same name. It’s a raucous, random, and outrageous film that may leave moviegoers feeling disorientated. I know I left trying to figure out what I just watched.

In the Borderlands film, we’re introduced to Lilith (Cate Blanchett), Roland (Kevin Hart), Tannis (Jamie Lee Curtis), Tiny Tina (Ariana Greenblatt), Krieg (Florien Munteanu), and the droid Claptrap (Jack Black). These six adventurers are on a mission to access the mysterious Vault on the planet Pandora. It’s believed Tiny Tina is the key to unlocking the Vault.

Various cast members from the movie Borderland crouched together with one of them wearing bunny ears

Will the crew be able to save Tiny Tina from Atlas (Edgar Ramírez) and Commander Knoxx (Janina Gavankar)? You’ll discover that as you watch Borderlands on the big screen.  Read more...

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Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Deadland

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One of the perks of long flights is the fantastic selection of movies many airlines offer. On our trip to and from London, American Airlines offered a great selection of movies and television series. I was able to travel and experience some Reel Leadership. The first movie I watched was BS High. The second movie was Deadland.

Deadland tells the story of U.S. Border Patrol agents who covered up the murder of an undocumented migrant. When Angel Waters (Roberto Urbina) picks up The Stranger (Luis Chávez), he has no idea what he is getting into.

Bearded man in a cowboy hat pointing a gun

Angel brings The Stranger to the border patrol station he leads. He trusts the safety of The Stranger with his two coworkers: Border Patrol Agent Ray Hitchcock (McCaul Lombardi) and medic Salomé Veracruz (Julieth Restrepo).  Read more...

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Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Deadpool & Wolverine

A Reel Leadership Article

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Ryan Reynolds returned as the Merc With A Mouth: Deadpool/Wade Wilson this weekend. More importantly, Hugh Jackman returned to the big screen in his role as the X-Man Wolverine. I have to say I haven’t been this stoked about a film in a long time. Seeing Hugh Jackman suit up in the classic comic book-accurate Wolverine suit blew my mind! (It appears the yellow spandex suit would’ve worked!).

But I’m also sad. Plenty of great films have been released in the past couple of weeks, including Twisters, that many moviegoers will overlook because of Deadpool & Wolverine. This film is going to destroy box office records.

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