Cole has made the move to the City of Angels so we’re celebrating by writing about a few of our favorite Los Angeles set movies. Sunset Boulevard There might be no other film in history that so intimately understands the heart and soul of Los Angeles than the one named in honor of one of…
Our editor, Henry, moved to New York City recently so we’re taking a look back at some of the films that best capture the Big Apple. Moonstruck “When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that’s amore!” croons Dean Martin over the opening credits of Moonstruck, one of the quintessential pieces of…
Today we’re celebrating the life of legendary actor Christopher Plummer, whose 75 year career netted him numerous legendary roles, the Triple Crown of Acting, made him the oldest acting Oscar nominee and winner, and saw him become infamous in the twilight of his career for his replacement of Kevin Spacey in All the Money in…
Today we’re talking about some of our favorites of the short lived microgenre of mumblecore. Some of us opted for a loose definition of the term. Creep I could never do something as trivial as following the rules, so my mumblecore pick is more of a mumblegore film. Creep certainly has all of the trademarks…
A selection of some of the films we’re most looking forward to seeing this year. Or next year. Or whenever they finally come out. Hopefully this year. Last Night in Soho Is there a part of me that wishes to have a more interesting most anticipated than putting a new Edgar Wright film on here…
To keep up with the horror theme and celebrate the release of The War with Grandpa, we’re talking about one of the most horrific things that can happen to someone, having a bad roommate. We’re not just limiting it to the type you’d find in a college dorm though, after all, what is a spouse…
In celebration of Guillermo del Toro’s birthday and in keeping with the horror theme for the month, we’ve put together a Staff Selects about a few of his films. Cronos With Cronos, his debut film, Guillermo del Toro was already beginning to show many of the tendencies he would lean into later in his career.…
Staff Selects is back and we’re kicking off October with a selection of some horror films that we thought are underseen or else we just wanted to write about. Tetsuo: The Iron Man Shinya Tsukamoto’s cyberpunk fever dream of a film begins with a man—the “Metal Fetishist”—slicing open his thigh with a knife and then…
This week on Staff Selects we honor the legendary Italian composer Ennio Morricone whose worked stretched from Leone to Carpenter to Pasolini to Tarantino and to hundreds of others in between. For A Few Dollars More There are six cinematic musical scores that will go down in history as instantly recognisable: The Godfather, Jaws, Star…
In memory of the legendary director and man who had more than 20,000 sexual partners, Joel Schumacher, this week we are taking a look at some of his greatest films. A Time to Kill Joel Schumacher had a real talent for taking any genre and making it his own. A Time to Kill, his second…
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