Review: 5-25-77
A flat-out masterpiece, 5-25-77 is a whimsical coming-of-age love letter to life, dreams, and Star Wars.
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The Top Ten Movies of 1977
We all know it’s been 40 years since Star Wars, but do you know what other Flickchart favorites are over the hill this year? Check out our Top 10 of 1977!
Plot Points: Early Spielberg and The Horrors of Broad Daylight
What makes a Spielberg movie a Spielberg movie? In the 1970s, it was scary stuff happening in daylight.
Flickchart Road Trip: Wyoming
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...
Star Wars at 35
A look back at the films of 1977 and the one movie of that year that changed cinema forever.
Super 8: A Flickcharter’s Movie Review
In a small town in 1979 Ohio, four friends decide to make a zombie film together using their parent’s Super 8 camera. The four boys, along with their new co-star Alice, go out to...
Directors Who Dominate: Steven Spielberg
Since last fall’s revamping of Flickchart‘s global ranking system (see the official announcement about that here), many films have found themselves moved around on the global charts. But one thing remains consistent: the Directors...
Reel Rumbles #25: “The Fifth Element” vs. “Men in Black”
In This Corner… In 1997, space was a quirky place. Paul Verhoeven went bug-squishing in Starship Troopers. A pre-Resident Evil Paul W.S. Anderson and a pre-Hellboy Guillermo Del Toro gave us very different sci-fi/horror...
New on DVD, Blu-ray, Netflix and WB Archive: September 14, 2010
Do you consider any of this week’s Blu-ray and DVD releases to be amongst the Best Films of All Time? Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (DVD & Blu-ray) How would you rank...
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 ;)