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On Twitter'The Blair Witch Project' had no chance to succeed. Until it did.
How did the film go so right and yet so wrong with moviegoers?
The 25 best Wu-Tang Clan albums
On the occasion of RZA's 50th birthday, let's rank the 25 most notable LPs, group and solo, from good to transcendent.
The 25 best films of Bill Murray's career
In honor of the fortieth anniversary of "Meatballs", here are Bill Murray's twenty-five greatest performances ranked from least to most transcendent.
Why Tim Burton's 'Batman' was a gift and a curse for the superhero genre
It’s been 30 years since Tim Burton’s “Batman” firmly established that superhero movies can be dark and moody and wildly profitable, but that needn’t be the go-to vibe.
"The Wild Bunch" is still an ambiguously bloody masterpiece 50 years later
Violence had long been a staple of American movies by the time Sam Peckinpah’s "The Wild Bunch" clopped into cinemas on June 18, 1969. For Westerns, violence was the primary draw. Audiences expected shootouts, showdowns and saloon brawls and felt cheated if they didn’t get to witness at least two of these obligatory bits of business.
"Tales from the Crypt" Turns 30, and the Crypt Keeper Doesn't Look a Day Over 300.
When "Tales from the Crypt" made its HBO debut on Saturday, June 10, 1989, expectations were running unreasonably high that the horror anthology would
25 years ago, "Speed" marked the end of the practical action era
For action movie aficionados, only one film mattered heading into the summer of 1994: James Cameron’s "True Lies." Unless you were a Hollywood insider or an avid reader of the Usenet newsgroups (aka the internet) 25 years ago, you likely had no idea that Fox was far more enthused over an unimaginatively titled movie called "Speed."
The 50 most quotable films of all time
When you discuss movies with your friends, you're more likely to exchange favorite quotes than you are to marvel over mise-en-scène. We love to quote movies. In the interest of stirring up a big ol' fight, here are 50 of the most quotable movies ever made, listed by title and screenwriter(s). To bolster each entry, we've included a sampling of the most memorable lines from each film.
20 movies you shouldn't sleep on this summer
These movies are home-cooked meals. They may not all be to your liking, but they're made with care. Here are 20 dishes you should sample this summer.
25 movies that definitely did not need sequels
Few movies need sequels, but the ones that rake in an abundance of cash at the box office will almost certainly get them, like it or not. And once studios/producers start sequelizing, it's hard to stop.
Elton John's discography, ranked
At his height, audiences wanted nothing more than to connect with Elton John (and his longtime lyricist Bernie Taupin). Why? Let's take a stroll through his discography and rank his albums from the weakest to stratospheric brilliance.
"Road House" 30 years later: Zen and the art of bouncing
“Be nice. Until it’s time to not be nice.” – Ancient bouncer proverb
Brandon Lee has come and gone
“If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them.”
The best film to musical adaptations
Sometimes great artists step in and deliver shows that transcend their unabashedly commercial origins. Here are twenty-five musicals based on movies that earned their place on the Great White Way.
The 25 most influential documentaries
Looking to beef up on your documentary viewing? We have some suggestions...
All class: The 25 most iconic high school movies
High school. It feels like a four-year prison sentence when you're a teenager, but, once you're free of its five-day-a-week grasp, you miss it. It's a period when you get to shape yourself, push limits, tick off your parents and fall in love for the first time.
Paul Rudd: Affable everyman, sometimes leading man
Six years ago, Paramount and MGM were blessed with the opportunity to right an ancient Hollywood wrong when filmmaker Joe Carnahan attempted to cast an
Tim Burton movies, ranked by weirdness
Tim Burton broke all of the Hollywood rules, inspired a generation of outcasts to find their inner-weirdo and then sold out hard. But he's still out there making movies, the most recent being his live-action remake of Disney's delightfully simple "Dumbo." In honor of his persistence, let's rank Burton's films in order of weirdness.
Catherine Keener: Indie film superstar
At any given moment in the 1990s, New Yorkers with a taste for offbeat movies made on low-to-no budgets could head downtown to the Angelika Film Center
25 actors we want to see play James Bond
"No Time to Die" marked the end of Daniel Craig's illustrious five-film tenure as James Bond. Craig leaves the franchise in the best commercial shape it's ever been in.
The James Bond movies, ranked
What are the best James Bond films? Which ones have stood the test of time and survived the drastically shifting cultural tides? Here are the official Eon-produced Bond films ranked from worst to first.
Independent Spirit Awards Best Film winners ranked
Nowadays, the Spirit Awards are celebrating films that would've been made by studios in the 1980s and '90s. Overall, the Spirit Awards have a better track record when it comes to honoring the year's best film. Want proof? Here's a hierarchical list of the Spirit Awards Best Film winners.
The 20 most lovable movie idiots
Bill and Ted were just the latest in a long line of lovable movie idiots, dating back to the medium's silent era. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of "Excellent Adventure" (released to theaters on Feb. 17, 1989), let's take a look back at some of the greatest goofballs to ever bumble their way onto the silver screen.
Redoing Oscar Best Picture Awards for the last 25 years
For over nine decades, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has bestowed its top honor on the year's Best Picture. And for most of those nine-plus decades, the voters have gotten it absolutely, irrevocably maddeningly wrong.
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