Sometimes, an iconic line of dialogue unexpectedly takes on a life of its own and ends up infiltrating our cultural vernacular for no apparent reason. And all it takes is one or two famous catchphrases to turn a great movie into a full-blown pop-cultural phenomenon that embeds itself in the public consciousness and that fans […]
Ever since he burst onto the scene with “Slacker” and “Dazed and Confused” in the early 1990s, Richard Linklater has solidified himself as one of the most essential voices in American cinema as well as an unflagging champion of film preservation, having spent the past four decades curating series as film programmer at his Austin […]
We all have that one movie that shook us to the chore and pushed our worldview in the process. It might have happened when we were at a young, and fairly impressionable age, thus making us fall in love with cinema, or it could have grabbed us at a moment in life that sparkled that […]
Swashbuckling adventures, screwball romcoms, dystopian sci-fi, punch-throwing martial arts extravaganzas, and everything in between: Today we’re counting down 10 undisputed movie classics that will give you plenty of bang for your buck if you need a distraction and that you’ll never get tired of watching. In making this list, narrowing our options down to 10 […]
The 90s was a great film decade for many reasons. It was an era where the independent films such as “Pulp Fiction” and “Fargo” were getting mainstream attention, the studios was still producing mid-budget films like “Jerry Maguire” and the blockbusters were fun enough without getting extended into Marvel-like universes or whatever. There was something […]
In the wise words of Roger Ebert, no good movie is long enough and no bad movie is short enough. However, it can be difficult to identify which ones truly justify their extended running time with so many blockbusters and studio releases stretching past the three-hour mark these days. Combing through likely titles for this […]