Cinematic history is littered with gems. In the hands of a brilliant director, a skillful cast, or a visionary writer, a masterpiece can be born. There are so many, in fact, that selecting just 100…

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Rotten Tomatoes and Netflix both reign supreme in their respective territories and since there’s such a natural overlap, it might be worth seeing what the first has to say about the second. As it turns…

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While I can understood the desire to step into the world of my favorite films, I do think it’d be odd to live in a house that was featured in a movie. Nonetheless, the home…

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Last year, the Motion Picture Association tallied the number of consumers worldwide with subscriptions to streaming services as of 2020. The final count stopped at a cool 1.1 billion. That, to use a brainy technical…

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Horror movies are weird in that they can be both good and bad simultaneously. Scares can be served up with or without a well-crafted plot or a bevy of brilliant acting. These days, horror movies…

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Love him or hate him, it’s undeniable that Wes Anderson’s singular point-of-view has influenced the fashion world. With a penchant for looking retrospectively at American and European fashion through the decades, Anderson’s oeuvre is a…

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“The book is always better than the movie,” goes the crusty old precept about book-to-movie adaptations. In a certain percentage of cases, this may be true. In others, it may not. For the most part,…

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Pulp Fiction. The Dark Knight. Schindler’s List. Each of these movies enjoys a spot in film’s pantheon, and in 2022 can be called classics without reaching. This will inevitably make more than a few folks…

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Alright: That’s a wrap. 2021 is over. Done. Finished. There’s nothing else to hold your breath on this year apart from the ball dropping, unless you’re in a store without a mask and you think…

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We’re fast approaching the end of the year. And that means studios are flooding theaters (and, if they bother, streaming services) with movies that they want to convince you are must-sees. Some of them probably…

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Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Quentin Tarantino’s acclaimed 9th movie, was inarguably one of of the best movies of 2019. With over 100 wins and 300 nominations from the Academy Awards and the Golden…

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We’re not going to be the first publication that admits that the entire zombie genre as a whole is played out, but it basically lead to the death of the AMC network as a whole.…

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Everyone loves a comedy, so we thought it’d be easy enough to assemble a list like this. Just get everyone in the office to share the movies they laugh hardest at. But what we found…

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Video games have come a long way since quarter-operated arcade cabinets.  We’re not disparaging arcade cabinets. The opposite. We love them and we have been known to patronize the occasional arcade bar. We’re just making…

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While Rotten Tomatoes puts a nice succinct rating on a movie, it’s really just a conglomeration of people’s opinions. That might sound like we’re stating the obvious, but we’re always surprised at how often people…

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There are a few comments we could make about every one of these directors, so we’ll reserve this space for those. Each director on this list is distinctly their own. If someone walked into any…

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