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Flickchart Road Trip: Virginia
30, Apr 2013
Welcome to the latest installment of Flickchart Road Trip, in which I’m starting in Los Angeles and “driving” across country, watching one movie from each state and posting about it once a week. The new movie I watch will go up against five movies from that state I’ve already seen, chosen from five distinct spots on my own Flickchart. Although I won’t tell you where the new movie actually lands in my chart (I don’t like to add new movies until I’ve had a month to think about them), I’ll let you know how it fared among the five I’ve chosen. Thanks for riding shotgun!
I’ve visited the state of Virginia as recently as 2011, though the trip was mostly for a wedding that occurred across the border in Maryland. My mother came down from Boston to babysit while my wife and I attended the wedding, and as a very small token of our gratitude, I drove her over to the town where she grew up: Alexandria, VA. (Did I say very small? I meant it. I was going to Alexandria anyway to visit an old friend and his family, who live there now.)
by Dan
Here’s everything you need to know this week about Netflix Instant Watch in one easy-to-find place. Learn which exciting new movies are available and which movies Netflix is pulling from streaming.
- In: What to Watch on Netflix Watch Instantly
- Tags: American Son, Angels and Demns, Annie, Conversations with Other Women, Daybreakers, Dear Zachary, Donnie Darko, Falling Down, Fish Tank, Hellboy, Hook, In the Line of Fire, Mesrine: Killer Instinct, Reign of Fire, Strange Days, The Square, Thunderheart, Two Mules for Sister Sara, Whatever Works
In Search of Best Picture
17, Feb 2011
by Nigel Druitt
As the Oscar telecast creeps up on us again, it begs the question: How many times has the Academy really gotten this “Best Picture” thing right, anyway?
Think about it. How many controversial decisions are there in the Academy’s history? How many times is a movie other than Best Picture long remembered as the best of the year?
- In: User Showcase
- Tags: (500) Days of Summer, 127 Hours, 1941, 1977, 1994, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 28 Days Later, 3:10 to Yuma, A Beautiful Mind, A History of Violence, A Serious Man, academy awards, adaptation, Alfonso Cuarón, American Beauty, An Education, Ang Lee, annie hall, Atonement, Avatar, Babel, Batman Begins, Best Picture, Big Fish, Black Swan, Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Casablanca, Catch Me If You Can, Chicago, Children of Men, Chocolat, Christopher Nolan, Citizen Kane, City of God, Clint Eastwood, Crash, Crouching Tiger, District 9, Donnie Darko, Eastern Promises, Erin Brockovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Exit Through The Gift Shop, Fight Club, film, films, Finding Nemo, Flickchart, Forrest Gump, Frost/Nixon, George Lucas, gladiator, Gone Baby Gone, Good Night and Good Luck, Gosford Park, Guillermo Del Toro, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, heath ledger, Hidden Dragon, hot fuzz, How Green Was My Valley, How to Train Your Dragon, Howl's Moving Castle, In Bruges, In the Bedroom, Inception, Inglourious Basterds, Iron Man, Juno, Kick-Ass, Kill Bill, Let The Right One In, Letters from Iwo Jima, Little Miss Sunshine, Lost in Translation, Luc Besson, Martin Scorsese, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, Memento, Michael Clayton, Mickey Rourke, Milk, Million Dollar Baby, Moon, moulin rouge, movies, Munich, Mystic River, No Country For Old Men, Oldboy, Orson Welles, Oscar, Pan's Labyrinth, Peter Jackson, Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire, Pulp Fiction, Reese Witherspoon, Ridley Scott, Ron Howard, Russell Crowe, Sandra Bullock, Saving Private Ryan, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, Seabiscuit, Sean Penn, Serenity, Shakespeare in Love, Shutter Island, Sin City, Slumdog Millionaire, Spider-Man, Star Trek, Star Wars, Steven Soderbergh, The 40 Year-Old Virgin, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The Aviator, The Blind Side, The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Ultimatum, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight, The Departed, The Fighter, The Hours, The Hurt Locker, The Kids are All Right, The King's Speech, The Lives of Others, The Lord of the Rings, The Matrix, The Pianist, The Professional, The Queen, The Reader, The Shawshank Redemption, The Social Network, The Town, The Wrestler, There Will Be Blood, Tim Burton, Toy Story 3, Traffic, True Grit, Up, Up in the Air, Walk the Line, WALL-E, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, William Hurt, Winter's Bone, Woody Allen, Zodiac
The Under-Ranked: The Social Network
1, Oct 2010
by Ross Bonaime
This weekend features one of fall’s biggest releases, The Social Network, written by The West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin, and directed by David Fincher as his follow-up to his Academy Award nominated film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. The Social Network tells the story of the creation of Facebook and the man behind it, Mark Zuckerberg. To bring to life the story of one of this generation’s most popular inventions, Fincher has brought together a great cast of up and coming Hollywood. Before you go see the film that some critics are already calling the best film of the year, check out some of the previous films from its incredible young cast.
- In: Under-Ranked|User Showcase
- Tags: Aaron Sorkin, Adventureland, Andrew Garfield, Being John Malkovich, Campbell Scott, david fincher, Donnie Darko, Facebook, Fincher, heath ledger, I'm Here, Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Timberlake N*SYNC, Lisbeth Salander, Mark Zuckerberg, Michael Cera, Never Let Me Go, Peter Parker, Richard Kelly, Roger Dodger, Rooney Mara, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Seann William Scott, Southland Tales, Spider-Man, Spike Jonze, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, The Killers, The Rock, The Social Network, The West Wing, Woody Allen, Youth in Revolt, Zombieland
The Flickchart Self
23, Feb 2010
I use Flickchart every day because I don’t know myself.
At the risk of impelling everyone to immediately stop reading by beginning a sentence with the phrase “back in college”, back in college I recall having a very college conversation with a roommate, who posed a question more or less akin to: “If you could invent, or rather wish into existence, a machine that could perform a certain task of your choosing, no matter how mundane or fanciful, what would you want this magical machine to do?” In reality, the roommate probably said something like “Wouldn’t it be cool if you had a toilet that turned poop into weed?”, and my response (after concurring that, yes, that would be a pretty cool toilet) to this was “I’d like to have a machine that told me what my favorite things are.”