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The 100 Best Movie Posters of the Past 100 Years

Movie posters help sell tickets, but more importantly they can be considered art. Some posters reveal the exact plot of the movie while others highlight the stars of the movie. Some are even an abstract representation of a key moment in the film. We looked at the best poster for each year, which meant leaving off of some classics. Take a look through history.   read more

Where The Wild Things Are Author To Publish New Picture Book

The Caldecott-winning author of Where The Wild Things Are is set to publish a new picture book from HarperCollins. Bumble-Ardy will serve as the first book from Maurice Sendak since 1981’s Outside Over There. The book first saw life in the early 1970s as an animated segment for Sesame Street....  read more

10 Great Single-Artist Soundtracks

While famed film composers like John Williams, Danny Elfman and James Horner are typically called upon for putting together the melodies that will stir us to laugh or cry, sometimes a soundtrack is better served by calling on someone from the world of popular music.  read more

The 20 Creepiest Kids' Movies of All Time

What with all the Dark Crystal sequel news that’s been flying around lately, I’ve been thinking about the original, and the slew of dark children’s movies from the ‘70s and ’80s. The opposite of brightly-colored, pop-culture-referencing Pixar flicks, films like The Secret of Nimh, The Last Unicorn and Watership Down were violent, dystopic and set in dense forests populated by bizarre creatures. Like the fairy tales from which some of them were drawn, these movies were not safe places to lose yourself. However, many of these films were feats of artistic prowess. Here is a look at 20 of the...  read more

Spike Jonze Doc on Maurice Sendak Hits DVD March 2

Spike Jonze and Lance Bangs’ 40-minute doc on Maurice Sendak will hit DVD on March 2, the same day as Jonze’s interpretation of Where the Wild Things Are....  read more

Caldecott, Newbery and Printz Book Awards Announced

The rampant success of the recent film adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are proves that you don’t have to be young to enjoy or learn from children’s literature. For decades, the American Library Association’s Association for Library Service to Children has been bestowing awards on the best of the best in books for children, and the winners of the three most prestigious awards for children’s books were just recently announced....  read more

The 25 Best Movies of 2009

Our favorite movies of 2009 belie a diverse appreciation ranging from a quiet rumination on death to gruesome horror; from a mostly ad-libbed, low-budget character study to the most expensive movie of all time.  read more

Karen O Song Nabs Miley Cyrus' Grammy Nomination

Thanks to the disqualification of a Miley Cyrus song, Karen O will now personally face off against Beyonce, Paramore and Bruce Springsteen in the 52nd annual Grammy Awards....  read more

Where The Wild Things Are (PlayStation 3)

Developer: Griptonite Games Publisher: Warner Bros. Interactive Platforms: PS3, Xbox 360, Wii Bored to be wild The film adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s beloved children’s picture book Where The Wild Things Are gave audiences, both young and old, cause to rejoice. In adapting the book for the big screen, director Spike Jonze and author Dave Eggers put great care into making sure there was sympathetic emotional depth beneath the Wild Things’ charmingly monstrous exteriors. On paper, Sendak’s story feels perfectly suited for a videogame adaptation as well. When the book’s protagonist Max gets sent to his room by his mother for...  read more

Jonathan Demme Turns Dave Eggers Hurricane Katrina Story Into Animated Film

Jonathan Demme (Rachel Getting Married, Philadelphia, Silence of the Lambs) acquired the rights to the book Zeitoun, which he plans to make into an animated film....  read more