“You can’t spend the rest of your life crying. It annoys people in the movies.” – Oscar Madison (“The Odd Couple”, 1968) There is a line from “The House That Dripped Blood”, the third in a series of anthology films from Amicus Productions, which went like this: “That’s what’s wrong with present-day horror films. There’s […]
Month: January 2014
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8 Superhero Movies That Prove The 3rd Film Curse Exists
Fans (and possibly casual movie goers) may have noticed a trend in the superhero film genre; that the third entry in any trilogy (or quadrilogy) ends up being noticeably weaker than its two predecessors. It’s a strange phenomenon that can possibly be explained by the fact that either ideas run thin by the time these […]
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30 Academy Award Winners You Never Saw Coming
The Oscar is always a fun guessing game to play. We analyze the nominees for months until the actual day comes and there is nothing left to do but just sit and watch it all go down. Most people these days calk up the Awards to a fun fantasy evening where Hollywood pats itself on […]
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The 14 Best Uses Of Rock Songs In Movies
Music in movies has always been just as important as the direction and screenplay. They can be truly defined by their scores, while music-less films are often boring and uninteresting. And sometimes films can use a particular song very well. So if scores define a film, then a song can and does define a scene. […]
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20 Awesome Horror Movies Streaming On Netflix Right Now
Netflix offers exactly 700 horror movies for instant streaming, including some of both the best and worst examples of the genre. We pored through creature features, slashers, and tales of zombies, vampires and werewolves to find 20 films that are scary-good. These are frightening films for sure, but most will give you something more than […]
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The 15 Best Movies Set In A Small Town
Have you ever noticed how many movies are set in or around either New York or Los Angles? Cinematically speaking, metropolitan areas like Chicago and Dallas are regularly portrayed as “small towns”. There are however a large number of movies in communities with populations of less than a few hundred thousand people. These films can […]