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  1. vulture lists
    The 13 Best Christmas Action Movies, RankedFor when you want fiery explosions with a side of holiday cheer.
    By Keith Phipps
  2. vulture lists
    The 50 Best Christmas Movies of All TimeEstablished classics, new favorites, and even some horror.
    By Keith Phipps
  3. in conversation
    ‘I Can Do Things to You With My Voice’Fifty-one years of acting. Hundreds of roles. One Samuel L. Jackson.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  4. performance study
    The Making of Silent BruceBruce Willis was a fast-talking lead who became a man-of-few-words star. Which made his mental decline that much harder to notice.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
  5. advent calendar
    Die Hard Is a Christmas … PuzzleThis is not up for debate.
    By Emily Palmer Heller
  6. die hard
    Die Hard’s Director Breaks Down Bruce Willis’s Iconic Roof JumpJohn McTiernan on John McClane’s climactic jump — and Hans Gruber’s final, fatal plunge.
    By Simon Abrams
  7. the reason for the season
    Bruce Willis Declares That Die Hard Is Not a Christmas MovieHe’s wrong, but still, hard to hear.
    By Halle Kiefer
  8. movies
    How Die Hard Changed the Action GameThey said an overpaid TV comedy actor didn’t stand a chance against Stallone, Schwarzenegger, and Eastwood. They were wrong.
    By Jason Bailey
  9. great debates
    Die Hard Screenwriter Mercifully Ends the Christmas-Movie DebateIf you’re still arguing about this, Steven E. de Souza has the answer.
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  10. Titanic, Die Hard, and The Goonies Added to the National Film RegistryAlong with Dumbo, Field of Dreams, and Spartacus.
    By Jackson McHenry
  11. where are they now
    John McTiernan Made His First Film in 14 Years“The Red Dot” is a 90-second commercial for Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands.
    By Drew Taylor
  12. tribute
    As Hans Gruber in Die Hard, Alan Rickman Redefined Action MoviesHans Gruber redefined action-film villainy.
    By Adam Sternbergh
  13. live free or write hard
    Die Hard Fan Gets a Surprising Hollywood DealHe paid for a full-page ad and is now going to write a movie about the New Jersey Devil.
    By Greg Cwik
  14. reginald veljohnson
    Reginald VelJohnson Is Happy to Play Cops“I don’t know what it is about me and this cop thing, but I get a lot of cop offers.”
    By Jackson McHenry
  15. sequels
    Die Hard Fan Who Pitched Sequel Is Very Chill“I’m not going to hear from them. My chances are slim to none.”
    By Nate Jones
  16. the industry
    Die Hard 6 Will Be John McClane’s Origin StoryThe next film in the series will be set in 1979.
    By Nate Jones
  17. ‘SNL’ Review: Badass Bruce WillisFor people who like to talk about comedy, there are few greater debates than the one over the claim that “funny is funny.” Can a performer or […]
    By Erik Voss
  18. last night on late night
    Last Night on Fallon: Bruce Willis Rocked a WigPlus: Bruce Willis’s favorite Bruce Willis movie one-liner.
    By Caroline Shin
  19. scene stealers
    10 Die Hard Tidbits We Learned From Its Biggest Scene-StealersTopics discussed: Road House, Demi Moore, Alan Rickman’s accent, Twinkies, “The quarterback is toast!” and more.
    By Steve Marsh
  20. last night on late night
    Last Night on Letterman: Bruce Willis Goes Under the DomeAs the angry neighbor right outside the dome.
    By Caroline Shin
  21. weird coincidences
    Watch Both Die Hard Scenes Involving TwinkiesToday is the 25th anniversary of Die Hard. It is also the day Twinkies return to stores. Coincidence much?
    By John Sellers
  22. vulture lists
    20 Ways White House Down Was Not Exactly Like Die HardSure, they were both tank-topped off-duty law-enforcement agents trapped in a building with terrorists, but their names were kind of different!
    By Nick Robins-Early
  23. movie review
    Movie Review: A Good Day to Die HardI didn’t think it was physically possible to doze off at a movie as loud as A Good Day to Die Hard.
    By David Edelstein
  24. man and superman
    The Downward Spiral of Die Hard’s John McClane From Everyman to SupermanFor our macho movie hero, dying hasn’t just become hard — it’s become impossible.
    By Nick Schager
  25. generators
    Try Vulture’s Die Hard Sequel Title GeneratorFrom The Die Hardy Boys to Can’t Die-Hardly Wait and dozens in between.
    By Jesse David Fox and Josh Wolk
  26. Left Handed Radio: Come see the Sequel Machine’s ‘Die Hard 6’ on February […]Left Handed Radio presents The Sequel Machine, a monthly live show where 22 writers of all stripes (The Onion, Fast Company, McSweeney’s, UCB’s […]
    By Left Handed Radio
  27. mural arts
    The World Is Getting a Giant John McClane MuralAt Fox Studios.
    By Zach Dionne
  28. trailer mix
    A Good Day to Die Hard: Some Father-Son Bonding. Also, Explosions.John McClane is in Russia, and he’s still not dead — hard.
    By Jesse David Fox
  29. die hard
    Watch a Supercut of All the Gunshots in Die Hard MoviesNow imagine all those fictional deaths!
    By Eliot Glazer
  30. lookalikes
    Now Ben Affleck Looks Like the Sleaze From Die HardHarry? The one who’s all, “Hans? Bubby?” Yeah, you remember.
    By J. Paul O'Connor
  31. die hard
    TV Corpses Are Actors, TooBut they don’t get no respect.
    By Willa Paskin
  32. notable quotables
    The Wit and Wisdom of John McTiernan“I am perfectly happy to not work on bad movies.”
    By Willa Paskin
  33. money
    Who’s Up for Die Hard 5?For no good reason that we can see, Fox has hired Skip Woods to script a fifth ‘Die Hard.’
    By Lane Brown
  34. news reel
    Bruce Willis Rages Against the Haters
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