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The 15 Most Badass Heroines in Film

Women in pop fiction are often relegated to stereotypical, supporting roles. But we’re starting to see more and more strong female characters that challenge gender roles by refusing to sit in the corner and look pretty, electing instead to kick ass and take names....  read more

The Nine Best Movie MacGuffins

Mac•guff•in: In cinema vernacular, an object of great importance that serves as the primary motivator for the protagonists, and their antagonists. It’s actually not a made-up word! Originally, it was coined by the venerable Alfred Hitchcock: “In crook stories it is almost always the necklace and in spy stories it is almost always the papers.” These days, it can be damn near anything. Here’s nine of the very best movie MacGuffins, arranged in no particular order (since we all knew the Maltese Falcon was the best one anyway, right?)....  read more

The Decade's 25 Most-Essential Foreign Films

Say what you will about the current state of American cinema, but there is one truth film-lovers can hold to be self-evident: Year after year, most many of the best films are imports from countries across the world. These are the kinds of films that typically yield critical kudos but struggle to find footing in the U.S. marketplace. Luckily, anything and everything is available to discover on DVD. This list sifts through the hundreds of worthy titles since 2000 to the bare-bones minimum of 25. Before you cry foul, wolf, or hey where's [insert foreign film title here], this is...  read more