Against All Odds: 12 Cinematic Tales of Survival Under Extreme Physical Conditions
Lost at sea, in the wilderness or even outer space, all of these movie characters have one thing in common: a driving will to survive.
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Second Chance Oscars: 2005 Best Picture
If you could go back in time, what wrong would you correct? The Academy Awards highlight some of the best films ever made, but they certainly don’t always get it right. Let’s travel back to 2005 and see which Best Picture nominee should have won.
The Definitive Ranking of Every Movie in Marvel’s Cinematic Universe
From Iron Man to Guardians of the Galaxy – here is the definitive ranking of all MCU movies leading up to the Age of Ultron. Does your favorite top the list?
Reel Rumbles: ‘Gravity’ vs. ‘Life of Pi’
In This Corner… Sometimes, a pair of seemingly disparate films can have more in common than it would appear on the surface. Sometimes, recent history repeats itself in interesting ways. So it is with...
Oscar Results: Academy Spreads the Love, But ‘Argo’ Outranks Them All
Ben Affleck‘s Argo completed its Cinderella rise to the top of the heap during awards season by claiming the Oscar for Best Picture at Sunday’s 85th Annual Academy Awards. When the nominations were announced on January...
VFX Studio Rhythm & Hues Files for Bankruptcy
Prominent visual effects studio Rhythm & Hues won the BAFTA Award for Best Visual Effects for its work on Ang Lee‘s Life of Pi on Sunday, and on Monday, the studio filed for Chapter...
‘Argo’ Takes Top Honors Again at Directors Guild Awards
In the 65-year history of the Directors Guild Awards, there have only been six times when the winner of Best Feature Film Director has not gone on to win the Best Director Oscar. With...
Memorable Matchups of 2012 – Part 3
Before beginning part 3 of my year-in-review opus I’d like to acknowledge how truly great a year we’ve had this year in regards to movies. For as many films and performances that will be...
Flickchart Preview: Life of Pi
The impending arrival of Ang Lee‘s Life of Pi is something I’ve been peripherally aware of for a while, buoyed by one simple image: A mostly stark movie poster featuring a young man and a...
Pre-Rumbles: “Thor” vs. “Captain America: The First Avenger”
As Marvel Studios begins their big push to the 2012 release of The Avengers, their films are increasingly taking on more of a soap-opera-like continuity between them. This serialization might be a little aggravating,...
That the film focuses more on Kong surprises me not at all. He more closely approximates an actual character, while…
Absolutely loved "Insidious: The Red Door"! The emotional depth and intense storytelling took this franchise to a whole new level.
I liked Guardians 3. It was a good ending to the trilogy. Gunn is one of the few filmmakers who…
Top Gun and Banshees deserve all the good awards.
North Dallas Forty might be appearing an article to come ;)