30 Movies That Are Somehow Turning 30 This Year
Nineties pop culture nostalgia is powerful, and never more so than in these troubled times. And when looking back across the decades at the films released 30 years ago, its…
20 Actually Great Movies Unceremoniously Dumped in January
Screenshot: Before Sunrise/Warner Bros. Big-budget movie spectacles tend to open in the summer, when there’s less chance bad weather will ruin critical opening weekend grosses. Movies with awards on their…
20 of the Best Man-Versus-Animal Movies of All Time
Screenshot: Jaws, Universal/Tubi In the trailer for his new film Beast, opening today, Idris Elba punches a lion. It sounds like the stuff of pulp trash, but the survival thriller/animal…
25 Movies That Could Never Be Made Today
Screenshot: The Last Samurai/Warner Bros. There’s been a sea change in the way Hollywood makes theatrical movies. COVID has altered the landscape in ways I’m not sure we can foresee,…
42 of the Most Mind-Blowing Special Effects Sequences in Movie History
Screenshot: Independence Day/20th Century Fox Admittedly, we’ve gotten a little jaded. Digital effects are so omnipresent in our blockbusters that we’ve come to expect the impossible from movies. Our sense…