a person who seeks out very dangerous or foolhardy adventures with no apparent fear
that little daredevil has broken an arm and an ankle this year alone
Guests dressed up as space cowboys, astronauts, and aliens.
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Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
1 Oct. 2025
But in 2005 — the same year an ambitious young Jedi's fall from grace spearheaded a revolution in a galaxy far, far away — another sci-fi movie got busy taking cowboys to the stars.
But there’s still something delectable about Guillermo del Toro, a director who is both a visionary and a genre classicist, returning to the original horror novel, the tale of monsters and madmen that gave birth to all subsequent tales of monsters and madmen.
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Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
26 Aug. 2025
Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan were madmen marching the United States toward nuclear war.
—
Isaac Schorr,
The Washington Examiner,
8 Aug. 2025
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