The key to momentarily grabbing and maintaining attention comes from the script’s good sense not to hold onto the obvious plot twist until the ending, choosing to make the revelation early on. With that out of the way, there are potentially endless directions to go next. To the filmmakers’...
the seven year wait between it andThe Shining, and the recent success of Oliver Stone’sPlatoon,Full Metal Jacketnow stands as one of Kubrick’s greatest achievements; a searing depiction of the madness of war both home and abroad. This one movie contains several of the ...
Silent Movie: Directed by Mel Brooks. With Mel Brooks, Marty Feldman, Dom DeLuise, Sid Caesar. A film director and his strange friends struggle to produce the first major silent feature film in forty years.
It’s the location of the thriller’s biggest shock, when a major character falls from the sky onto a taxi, as well as its powerful ending. Grand Millennium Plaza, Sheung Wan Hong Kong Island is not exactly known for being spacious. Perhaps that’s why the park in the centre of this ...
reflecting how the lives of its family combine endless routine with the interruptions of random events. The day they all pile into a car to go to the races, for example, a lesser film would have had them winning or losing. In this film, they have a flat tire, and no spare. Thus doe...
Friday the 13th(1980) movie posterIMDB At the time ofFriday the 13th, Savini thought this was just a one-time, low-budget horror movie about a murderous mother killing camp counselors because her son drowned. Savini intended his lake scene with Jason—inspired by ...
Its fully functional passenger-side ejector seat, activated by a button hidden on the gear-shift knob—an audience favorite despite the fact that the villain flung from it barely cleared the top of the car. In 1964, Corgi made a toy die-cast model complete with machine guns, an ejector ...
Today’s movie is Capricorn One (1977). This is a fantastic conspiracy theory movie about an aborted flight to Mars and the cover-up. This movie fits in well with the general mistrust of the government following the Watergate mess, the pardoning of President Nixon, an un-elected president,...
Putting ‘Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog’ on an all-time best-of list isn’t so much baiting controversy as it is insulting the form. And yet, here the groundbreaking internet musical still proudly ranks — shock ending, abysmal lighting, hammer/penis, and all. Much like its antihero ...
If the car in Titane had a less lusty, more murderous origin story, it would probably be Christine. King's 1983 automobile horror novel saw a John Carpenter-directed film version out the same year, and sees a possessed 1958 Plymouth Fury wreaking all sorts of homicidal havoc on its unsuspec...