But in October 1978, a new movie first introduced to Michael Myers, the silent, mask-wearing stalker, in the originalHalloween. We’ve never trusted a lone wolf trick-or-treater again. In the film, masterfully directed by John Carpenter (with a screenplay he co-wrote with Debra Hill), My...
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Brian De Palma's 'Blow Out' is one of the best films about movie-making that isn't really about movie-making. It follows a sound engineer for a low-budget slasher film who is out recording wind effects when he accidentally records a car accident. As you might expect from a De Palma ...
Characters don’t always need to do some fancy “jack the action” shit every time they’re handling a gun. Some guns need that. Some do not. Doing that will nearly always eject the shell that’s in the chamber, which is only a thing you want if it’s an empty casing and the ...
'Animal House' and 'The Blues Brothers.' Its deft balance of horror and comedy has continued to inspire people like Edgar Wright, Tim Burton and Michael Jackson, who loved the movie so much he asked Landis to direct the "Thriller" video. But 'American Werewolf' is best remembered for its...
Product innovation is one way that large corporations stay competitive in a rapidly changing marketplace, but it doesn’t always work out when big brands attempt innovation. Below are what we consider to be the 164 biggest product flops of all time. We combed through thousands of media articles...
finding a Tarkovsky movie at Blockbuster. Charts, all of them with pictures crowding out words, have replaced writing. There is nowhere for your eyes to rest on a page. Often it takes a minute to figure out the flow of type that's there -- where it begins, where one column continues....
Point Break is an iconic '90s movie in which Keanu Reeves plays rookie FBI agent Johnny Utah, who has to — and we're not kidding here — infiltrate an L.A. "surf gang" suspected of robbing banks. Very little in this movie makes any sense (the large reason Utah is assigned the ...
This absolutely delightful movie is full of British acting greats at their zaniest and visibly having the time of their lives: Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins, Julie Walters, Jim Broadbent, Peter Capaldi, and more. Yes, Paddington is a family film, but its joys will win over audiences of any...
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