10 Cloverfield Lane is a movie that works on subverting expectations – for both the audience and its characters. It does this continually throughout its svelte 106 minute runtime, but first with its own name. The title of the film suggests some kind of tie-in to the 2008 found footage monster movie Cloverfield – and...
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All Bond Films Ranked From Worst to Best: 5-1
Not only are you about to discover my all-time favorite Bond films, but at least three of them rank among my all-time favorite movies period. If you haven’t seen any of these films before, rectify that as soon as you can. I apologize in advance if I get carried away in my effusive praise for...
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80. It Follows Not a lot of teen horror films have made the list so far. That’s because most of them understand nothing about teenagers and use them only as fodder for mad slashers. That’s not the case with David Robert Mitchell’s It Follows, which uses a simple and ingenious premise to reflect on...
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People have been talking about Ghostbusters a lot in the past couple of weeks. Not sure why. Whatever the reason, all of this perfectly rational discourse got me thinking: why the hell was Ghostbusters 2 so mercilessly shredded by critics upon its initial release? I remember when I first started taking film criticism seriously,...
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All Bond Films Ranked From Worst to Best: #10-6
We’re into the Top Ten now, ladies and gentlemen. I was genuinely surprised by how difficult it was to rank some of these movies. This is my one problem with making lists like this. A large part of me dies every time I find myself comparing the Sean Connery movies to the Roger Moore ones. Anyone...
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Welcome to Part 2 of my choices for the 100 Greatest Horror films! A word or two about the numbers before we begin: they’re mostly arbitrary. Ranking 100 films and definitively saying that number 65 is better than number 66 and so on and so forth is basically impossible. The numbers aren’t really going...
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I’ve made it no secret on this site that horror is my home genre. I’ve been a fan of horror films since before I could walk. Not really sure why. When people ask me why I like the genre so much, I’m hard pressed to come up with a solid answer. This is partly...
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All Bond Films Ranked From Worst to Best: #20-16
If you’re reading this, I assume you read the first article and don’t hate me yet. Good! We’re off to a great start. This is probably going to change in due time. Numbers twenty through sixteen include some of the Bond films I’m least likely to revisit. One is downright lousy, some are unrelentingly mediocre while...
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Stephen King fans all over the world raised their arms in celebration this week as it was finally announced that the long awaited adaptation of his magnum opus, The Dark Tower, was going into production with Idris Elba officially cast as the stoic hero Roland and Matthew McConaughey as the evil Man in Black....
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All Bond Films Ranked From Worst to Best: #24-21
At some point last year, I began a slow and intermittent marathon of the entire James Bond franchise in the lead-up to the release of Spectre. Because I’m a good little trainspotter, I started ranking the Bond films from best to worst on a note saved onto my computer. I wasn’t planning on doing anything...
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