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ADVERTISEMENT You always hear about supposedly “cursed” movies, like Poltergeist or The Crow or Twilight Zone: The Movie, as having a high rate of actual death. So, I decided to put it all to the test. I went through over a hundred listings on the Internet Movie Database, to see which films truly had the most death [...]
Posted by Jim Ciscell on Monday, April 8, 2013 at 4:30 am
Filed under Movies · Tagged Cocoon, cursed movies, Ghost Story, Grumpy Old Men, History Of The World part I, Jetsons: the Movie, Jim Ciscell, Movies, pro wrestling, psycho II, The Blues Brothers, Time Bandits, TopTenz, Transformers: The Movie, wrestlemania V
Over the years, time travel has become one of the most common plot devices in sci-fi cinema. It has been used, abused, revered, and spoofed in more films than can be counted. But whether time travel is approached as a serious scientific concept, or as a flimsy deus ex machina, its appeal is undeniable. Listed below [...]
Posted by Nathanael Hood on Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 12:01 am
Filed under Movies · Tagged 12 Monkeys, Back to the Future, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, La Jetee, looper, Midnight In Paris, Movies, Nathanael Hood, Star Trek IV, Terminator 2, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Time Bandits, time travel, TopTenz
In the recent Snow White and the Huntsman, regular-sized actors played the ‘dwarves’, with the assistance of movie magic. The same approach was also used in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy as well as the upcoming The Hobbit (and its upcoming sequel). However, there is a lot to be said for using actual [...]
Posted by Jim Ciscell on Friday, August 24, 2012 at 12:01 am
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Whether it was Marty McFly, Gordon Gekko, the Terminator, Jake La Motta, the working girl (Melanie Griffith), or sharp-shooter Jimmy Chitwood, the 1980’s was a memorable decade of iconic heroes, novel advances in technology, and the cementation of blockbuster culture at the movies. Hollywood has always been a fast-moving town with new sets of winners [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Wednesday, August 17, 2011 at 12:01 am
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When I came up with this list of the top ten time travel movies I set some parameters. The movie must have time travel central to the plot. And when you think of the movie, the theme of time travel must jump to the forefront. So movies like Austin Powers, International Man of Mystery were [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Tuesday, June 3, 2008 at 11:27 pm
Filed under Movies · Tagged 12 Monkeys, Ashton Kutcher, Back to the Future, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, butterfly effect, First Contact, h g wells, movie, Movies, Returner, Star Trek, Star Trek IV, Terminator 2, Time Bandits, time machine, time travel, time travel movies, top 10 list
