A Christmas Story, The Matrix, More Join National Film Registry
"These films are not selected as the ‘best’ American films of all time, but rather as works of enduring importance to American culture." read more
Found in: Movies, News10 of the Most Terrifying Pop-Culture Dystopias
With the future uncertain, artists over the years have provided their own—sometimes horrific—visions of what this world may become. In response, we’ve compiled a list of the 10 of the Most Terrifying Pop Culture Dystopias to remind us all that things could be a lot worse.... read more
Found in: Blogs, List of the DayThe Best 10 Chapters in Anthology Films
Anthology films, especially ones with chapters made by different filmmakers, tend to be cinematic curiosities: the installments inevitably range between masterpieces and duds, but the good ones feel inextricable from the rest. read more
Found in: Blogs, List of the DayWatch a Recreation of The Matrix Starring Valve Characters
When Valve released Source Filmmaker, the movie-making tool they used to create their in-game cinematics, many jumped at the chance to tinker with the technology. Amateur filmmakers could create and recreate anything they wanted, and that’s what makes this program so impressive.... read more
Found in: Blogs, Awesome of the DayThe 15 Best Explosions in Movie History
Sure, we love those quiet moments in a Wim Wenders film as much as the next mid-brow entertainment website, but today we embrace our inner 12-year-old. And there are few things more visually appealing than a kick-ass explosion. read more
Found in: Blogs, List of the DayThe 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
Found in: Blogs, List of the DayWhat 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
Found in: Music, NewsThe 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
Found in: Blogs, List of the DayThe 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
Found in: Blogs, List of the Day“Bullet Time”… in the late 19th century
Eadweard Muybridge couldn’t have known in the 1880s that his photographs would one day... read more
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