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 minds tend to come out in the fall, so that they’ll be fresh in the minds of critics and viewers as voting deadline approach. So where…
15 of the Best Movies About Huge Liars
Screenshot: Miramax / Paramount Pictures / Amazon Prime VideoIn an age of fake news and casual disinformation, it’s reassuring, in a sense, to know that we can still be surprised and/or amused by falsehoods. Enter freshman Congressman George Santos, a Long Island Republican who, it turns out, isn’t capable of being honest about even a…
22 of the Best Movies of 2022 That Won’t Get Nominated...
We all know how this goes: The Golden Globe nominations just dropped, Oscar nominations come out in January, and in both cases, most of the discourse surrounding both is/will be about what didn’t get nominated. Some of that has to do with the fact that popular blockbusters rarely get recognized in anything but a few…
20 of the Saddest Christmas Movies of All Time
Screenshot: Meet Me in St. Louis/Warner ArchiveThe holidays are a time for big emotions. The weather’s extreme (in many places), there’s too much to do, and family gatherings offer up wild swings of intense feeling: joy, excitement, apprehension, annoyance, exhaustion. The movies (and life) teach us that any holiday meal with a sufficient number of…
18 Memorable Times Actors Appeared in Movies After They Died
Screenshot: The Dark Knight/Warner Bros. PicturesWhile I remain inconsolable in the wake of the recent passing of Dame Angela Lansbury, there’s some solace to be taken in news that the actor, who never formally retired, will appear onscreen one final time in Rain Johnson’s forthcoming Benoit Blanc caper Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, which…
12 of the Worst Biopics of All Time (and 12 to...
LOVE, MARILYN - Official UK Trailer - A Documentary That Looks Into Her Personal DiaryMarilyn Monroe’s legend survives precisely because the reality of the woman so easily slips through our fingers. She’s not a person, but a repository for our desires and fears around sexuality and celebrity. That’s a double-edged sword with regard to her…
