The 10 Biggest Box Office Bombs from Acclaimed Directors

The Lovely Bones (2009)

Even the best directors make mistakes. It’s not like Ridley Scott expected Alien: Covenant to gross a lousy $74 million domestically. Sometimes the most successful directors fail to drawn in a crowd. Whether that’s because of poor reviews, bad marketing, lack of interest, or some combination of the three, it’s hard for any director to […]

The 25 Darkest Movies of All Time

melancholia

This list/article is the third in a series attempting to argue that for cinema to be and to be taken seriously as an art form, it must forgo and move beyond Hollywood-like vis-ual-based ways of meaning-formation, understanding, etc. into actor-, face-, dialogue-, voice-, emotion-, body-, character-, feeling,-, psychology-, and tone-based ones. Readers are strongly advised […]

All 26 Ron Howard Movies Ranked From Worst To Best

In June 2017, Lucasfilm’s president, Kathleen Kennedy, finally did what many cinephiles were hoping would eventually happen: assign one of the Disney owned Star Wars films to a powerhouse filmmaker. Throughout 40 years of Star Wars fandom, auteurs like Guillermo del Toro, David Fincher, Steven Spielberg, and David Cronenberg had come close to the job, […]