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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

What Does the Third Trailer Tell Us About Christopher Nolan's Inception?

Click through for all three trailers. You'll still be confused, though...  read more

The 30 Best Fight Scenes in Movie History

I haven’t been in a fight since 10th grade (unless you count an attempted mugging in Kenya where I fended off some unarmed teenagers with a bag of water bottles), and I’d very much like to keep that streak alive. But at the heart of every good story is a struggle, and some times that struggle gets physical. We devoted a whole issue to exploring violence in the arts last year with philosophical nuance, but this list just celebrates a good fight. Sometimes it’s good vs. evil, sometimes it’s more complicated. We celebrate the underdog, the outnumbered and outsized finding...  read more

The 20 Worst Sequels to Good Movies

Lest we forget that movie-making is a business, and a lucrative one at that, all we need to do is look at the list of terrible sequels that have been made to cash in on the success of good movies. There are a lot of them. In fact, a good sequel is such a rarity that it’s an easier critical task to cite the ones that worked as opposed to the long list of those that don’t. Here, we list the 20 worst sequels that followed up good (or, at least, entertaining) original films, and there are literally dozens more...  read more

“Bullet Time”… in the late 19th century

Eadweard Muybridge couldn’t have known in the 1880s that his photographs would one day...  read more