Some actors are well-publicized career switchers and use that to promote their directorial efforts. But more actors than you may know have taken the reigns behind that camera to mixed results. Here we find 20 films that were the directorial efforts of some surprising famous faces. 20. Gridlock’d Directed by: Vondie Curtis-Hall The movie: […]
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25 Great Movies Featuring Prominent LGBT Characters
Being gay is big news right now! At the same time we have Michael Sam, a college football player entering the NFL draft aiming to become the first openly gay player in that league. Stealing his thunder was Jason Collins who became the first openly gay athlete in the major American sports when he signed […]
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6 Reasons Why The Robocop Remake Doesn’t Suck
RoboCop (1987) is a classic science fiction film, satirizing the consumerism and the sleazy corporate ethics of the Reagan-era. Wildly popular in its day, it spawned two sequels, a live-action television series, a mini-series, and several video games, comic books, cartoons and action figures. And countless rip-offs of which the most recent is Fox’s “Almost […]
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20 Mentally Disturbed Movie Characters Oscar Loved
How To Get Nominated for an Oscar: 1. Be Meryl Streep. 2. Be handicapped. 3. Be dying. 4. Be completely alone…. through most of the movie. 5. Be the underdog who nobody thought would win or the person who helped the underdog win. 6. Be in a movie nobody ever heard of before the nominees […]
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The 10 Best Movies Of Harold Ramis
Everyone knows Harold Ramis for his role as Egon Spangler in “Ghostbusters”. Actually, he was more than a gifted actor. As an accomplished comedy screenwriter and director, Ramis has a film career that deserves everybody’s veneration. Comedy is a film genre that doesn’t always get proper respect. The truth is, though, if you take away all the […]
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10 Oscar Winners For Categories That No Longer Exist
The Academy Awards, as we’ve seen recently with the addition of 10 best picture spots, hasn’t been the most consistent with its nomination categories. Which makes sense as the ever-changing climate of movie making starts to reveal new aspects of technology and creative achievements to honor. Here is a trip down Oscar memory lane with […]