Posts tagged movies
Make this weekend a streamin’ weekend. Some cool, new and classic movies to stream include: Casa de mi Padre, Manhattan, Bottle Rocket, The Zen of Bennett, and The Evil Dead.
The finale for the Twilight Saga breaks tonight at midnight. Get caught up with our guide to watching the entire franchise.
Twilight
New Moon
Eclipse
Breaking Dawn Part 1
Breaking Dawn Part 2
YouTube Montage of the Week: Cage Rage! Click the Pajiba link for the complete movie list.
We present our first “Trailer Showdown” where each week you vote on which buzzworthy trailer you like the best. This week we have two films that are already generating Oscar talk: Hitchcock (starring Anthony Hopkins as the acclaimed director), and Flight (Robert Zemeckis’ return to live-action, with Denzel Washington as an alternate reality Capt. Sully). Watch the trailers below, vote on which you think is the best, and let us know if you’ll be watching either films.
Hitchcock
Flight
Vote!
As you watch Looper this weekend, take a cinematic trip back in time with our handy guide to watching time travel movies.
We are very saddened to learn of the death of Tony Scott. Many of us remember him for directing Top Gun and Days of Thunder, but he did have quite a prolific career through the ’90s and 2000s. Some of his work is available now for streaming, including his directorial debut, 1983’s The Hunger. So, if you’d like to explore the late director’s career, we’re here to help.
Unstoppable (2010)
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009)
Deja Vu (2006)
Man on Fire (2004)
Spy Game (2001)
Enemy of the State (1998)
The Fan (1996)
Crimson Tide (1995)
True Romance (1993)
The Last Boy Scout (1991)
Beverly Hills Cop II (1987)
The Hunger (1983)
The fall of M. Night Shyamalan charted. Will you risk his next one, After Earth?
The Philadelphia Story (1940) // George Cukor
A pure classic, as recommended by our CTO, Bernie. Check this movie out, and other great movies to watch via our Staff Picks channel.
Sight and Sound Magazine have finished compiling their decennial list of the greatest films of all time. You can view the critics’ top 50 here (actually 52 because of three-way tie at the 50th slot), and I assume the complete lists will be available after Sight and Sound publish their September issue. To give the list some context, Sight and Sound have been compiling a poll of film critics every ten years since 1952 to determine the greatest films of all time. In 1992, they also started compiling a separate list polling directors.
I find it fascinating to observe the shifting critical opinions around great films over the years. Some of the films (such as VERTIGO, SUNRISE, and 2001) have steadily increased in reputation over the last few decades. Some are slowly diminishing. But mostly I’m fascinated by the films that seem to bounce around from decade to decade. For example, look at the chaotic ranking changes of THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC, which seems to oscillate in reputation every twenty years.
Being a narcissistic soul, my initial thought was to see how the Sight and Sound lists compared to my personal Top 10 Films Of All Time list. Answer? Not well. None of my top 10 picks show up anywhere on the top 50 of the Sight and Sound critic list.
Even more embarrassingly, I’ve only seen 17 of their top 50 films. I guess I have a lot more movie-watching to do.
