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In the 80 or so years of its existence, the Academy Awards has made some poor choices. Dances With the Wolves over Goodfellas? Bleh. And try finding someone who could justify The Greatest Show On Earth or Around the World In 80 Days winning- let alone getting nominated. The list goes on. We know what [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Saturday, February 26, 2011 at 11:17 pm
Filed under Movies · Tagged A Clockwork Orange, A Streetcar Named Desire, Academy Award, Academy Award for Best Picture, academy awards, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, American film directors, American Film Institute, Around the World In 80 Days, Cinema of the United States, Citizen Kane, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, epic films, Faye Dunaway, film, full metal jacket, Grand Illusion, It Happened One Night, Jack Nicholson, La Grande Illusion, Network, orson welles, Reds, Robert De Niro, Rocky, Sierra Madre, Taxi Driver, The Grapes of Wrath, The Shawshank Redemption, The Third Man, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Vittorio Storaro, vivien leigh, You Can't Take It With You
There are two things about horror movies that hold true no matter what. The one survivor is usually a white girl, and there will be sequels. Dozens upon dozens of sequels. But can a franchise really sustain so many sequels? We’re not so sure. Here are ten horror franchises that should have quit sooner: 10. Halloween [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Thursday, January 6, 2011 at 12:01 am
Filed under Movies · Tagged Bates Motel, Candyman, Candyman 2, Candyman 3: Day of the Dead, Children of the Corn, Children of the Corn II, cujo, Day of the Dead, death, film, Film genres, Final Destination, Freddy vs. Jason, Friday the 13th, Golan Globus, Gus Van Sant, halloween, Halloween II, Halloween III, horror, Horror film, horror films, Independent films, James Earl Jones, Jason Voorhees, Jason X, Jennifer Aniston, Jigsaw, John Boorman, John Carpenter, Kevin Bacon, Laurie Strode, Legion, Leprechaun, Matthew McConaughey, michael myers, Movies, Paramount films, Paul Schrader, Psycho, Renee Zellweger, Richard Burton, Robert Bloch, Saw, sequels, Slasher films, Stephen King, Taxi Driver, Teen films, The Exorcist, The Exorcist II, The Final Sacrifice, The Mangler, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III, Tobe Hooper, Tom Savini, Tony Todd
Every decade Hollywood produces a new crop of child actors. Some are remembered; most are forgotten. We know the Shirley Temples, the Tatum O’Neals, the Corey Feldmans, the Dakota Fannings and the Abigail Breslins. We remember Linda Blair’s inspired (or possessed) performance in The Exorcist. Other child stars shone just as bright… just not as [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Monday, November 29, 2010 at 12:01 am
Filed under People, Television · Tagged Aaron, Adventures in Babysitting, alfred hitchcock, Amanda Flinner, Back to the Future, Brothers & Sisters, Bruce Willis, California, car thieves, child actor, child actors, child star stories, child stars, children and movies, children and TV, Chocolate Factory, Cinema of the United States, City of Shoulders and Noses, Claude Dagle, corey feldman, Dallas, Doubt, Edna May Wonacott, Entertainment, entertainment lawyer, Entertainment_Culture, ER, film, forgotten child stars, full house, Herman Munster, Hoffman, honey i blew up the kid, honey i shrunk the kid, I Blew Up the Kid, Jackie Coogan, Jared Rushton, Jeff Cohen, Jodie Foster, Josh Brolin, Justin Henry, Keith Coogan, kid actor, kids, Kramer vs. Kramer, Kurt Russell, Lara Spotts, Linda Blair, Los Angeles, Lucy McFadden, Maia Brewton, Marty McFly, McFarland, Mercury Rising, Miko Hughes, Molly Ringwald, movie trivia, Movies, New York, No Country for Old Men, oscars, Our Gang, Patty McCormack, Peter Ostrum, precocious child actor, Quinn Cummings, Rhoda Penmark, Rick Moranis, Sally Baines, Santa Rosa, Sean Astin, Shadow of a Doubt, Stephen King, Supporting Actress Oscar, tatum oneal, Taxi Driver, Television, Texas, The Bad Seed, The Goodbye Girl, The Goonies, The Lord of the Rings, The Sopranos, THREE'S COMPANY, tom hanks, top 10 child actors, TopTenz, tv, TV producer, United States, Vanessa Redgrave, veterinarian, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Wonka's factory, Yale
While many may think that French cinema is dry, boring, and stale, those initiated into the country’s movie industry know that France has one of the world’s richest crime film heritages. French cinema is brimming with tales of enigmatic heroes, daring heists, and malevolent criminals. Inspired by Hollywood detective stories and film noir, French crime [...]
Posted by Nathanael Hood on Thursday, July 15, 2010 at 12:01 am
Filed under Crime, Movies · Tagged Abel Davos, Alain Delon, Algiers, Bob le flambeur, Charlie Saroyan, Cinema of France, Classe tous risques, Claude Sautet, Entertainment_Culture, Eric Stark, film, film critic and director, Film genres, film noir, films, foreign films, François Truffaut, French cinema, french directors, french movies, French New Wave, Heist films, Humphrey Bogart, Jacques Becker, Jean Gabin, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean-Pierre Melville, Jef Costello, Jim Jarmusch, John Woo, Jules Dassin, Julien Duvivier, Le Cercle Rouge, Le Samouraï, Lena, Martin Scorsese, Max le Menteur, Movies, Nathaniel Hood, Neo-noir, Paul Schrader, Pépé le Moko, Pickpocket, Rififi, Riton, Robert Bresson, Taxi Driver, Tirez sur le Pianiste, top 10 films, TopTenz, TopTenz.net, Touchez Pas au Grisbi
As one of the most influential directors of all time, many of Alfred Hitchcock’s films have become permanent classics of the cinema. Psycho, Rear Window, Vertigo, North by Northwest, and The Birds are just some of his most popular titles. Audiences all over the world know his movies, but few people know just how many [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Thursday, June 10, 2010 at 12:01 am
Filed under Movies · Tagged academy awards, aircraft factory worker, alfred hitchcock, Amsterdam, auteur, bad tempered bartender, Balestrero, Barry Kane, best directors, Blackmail, Bob Rusk, Boulder Dam, british films, California, cary grant, Charlotte Inwood, Christian Dior, Christian Dior S.A., cinematic devices, Detective, director of the suspense/thriller genre, director of thrillers, Entertainment_Culture, Erica Burgoyne, Eve Gill, ffolliot, ffollliiot, film, Foreign Correspondent, Frenzy, George Sanders, Grand Hotel, Greater London, Henry Fonda, Hitchcock, Hitchcockian, http://forgottenclassicsofyesteryear.blogspot.com/, I Confess, Jane Wyman, Joel McCrea, John Forsythe, Johnny Jones, Jonathan Cooper, Lifeboat, local police Chief Constable, London, Marlene Dietrich, Michael William Logan, mid-Atlantic, Mount Rushmore, Mystery films, Nathaniel Hood, Netherlands, New York, New York City, North by Northwest, North Holland, Northwest, Notorious, Paramount films, Patricia Martin, priest, Psycho, Rear Window, reluctant billboard model, reporter, Richard Blaney, Robert Tisdall, Romance films, Rope, Sam Marlowe, Scotland Yard, Scott Ffolliot, Shadow of a Doubt, Spellbound, Spy films, Statue of Liberty, Strangelove, Strangers on a Train, Taxi Driver, The Birds, The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog, The Netherlands, The Trouble with Harry, The Wrong Man, top ten Hitchcock, TopTenz.net, United Kingdom, United States, United States Navy, Van Meer, Vertigo, Young and Innocent