Some shows you know are going to be good from the moment they start. These are 20 great examples.

There are some topics that are particularly difficult to try to tackle, and this is one of them, admittedly. Every movie obviously has an opening scene, and many great movies have great opening scenes ...

Most films made for streamers rush to grab the audience before they can keep scrolling. They’ll start in medias res or offer up so much bombast that you can’t look away. But before streaming, ...

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Unfortunately, that early promise sometimes ends up being nothing more than a frustrating bait-and-switch. There are few cinematic experiences quite as irritating as watching a movie that peaks purely ...

The opening scene of holiday favorite “Love Actually” offers up the closest thing to proof of this assertion that I’ve ever encountered onscreen. There’s nothing flashy about the scene, just plain ...

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The opening scenes to these legendary horror movies have become some of cinema’s most iconic moments. Horror has been an incredibly popular genre for entertainment for well over a century, with the ...

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CinemaCon 2026 debuted opening scenes from Dune: Part Three, Mandalorian and Grogu, and Beyond the Spider-Verse. Dune: Part Three opened with a brutal Fremen battle, highlighting a massive galaxy-wide ...

Ryan Heffernan is a Senior Writer at Collider. Storytelling has been one of his interests since an early age, with his appreciation for film and television becoming a particular interest of his during ...