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Time Out London: The 50 best Christmas Movies
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Top 50 Pandemic Movies
Favs/dislikes: 4:0. Based on several lists available on Internet. Others lists with the same methodology: Top 50 Business Films https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/top+50+business+films/baalman/ Top 50 Rock'n Roll Films https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/top+50+rockn+roll+films/baalman/ Top 50 Car Movies https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/top+50+car+movies/baalman/ Top 50 Films About Films https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/top+50+films+about+films/baalman/ Top 50 Films About Arts and Artists https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/top+50+films+about+art+and+artists/baalman/ Top 50 Dystopian Films https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/top+50+dystopian+films/baalman/ Top 50 Films About Politics https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/top+50+films+about+politics/baalman/ Top 50 Plot Twist Films https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/top+50+plot+twist+films/baalman/ Top 50 Surrealistic Films http://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/top+50+surrealistic+films/baalman/ Top 50 Disturbing Films https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/top+50+disturbing+films/baalman/ Top 50 Films About Media https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/top+50+films+about+media/baalman/ Top 50 Films About Law https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/top+50+films+about+law/baalman/ Top 50 Films About Writers and Writing https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/top+50+films+about+writers+and+writing/baalman/ Top 50 Films About Conspiracy (Theories) https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/top+50+films+about+conspiracy+theories/baalman/ Top 50 Films About Mental Illness http://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/top+50+films+about+mental+illness/baalman/ Top 50 Films About Serial Killers https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/top+50+films+about+serial+killers/baalman/ Top 50 Pandemic Movies https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/top+50+pandemic+movies/baalman/ Top 50 Films about Drugs https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/top+50+films+about+drugs/baalman/ -
Top 50 Plot Twist Films
Favs/dislikes: 4:0. Based on several lists available on Internet. Methodology: Eligibility: Lists with 10 to 30 entries. Not eligible: too specific lists such as "available on Netflix", documentaries only, "best of the decade", etc. and lists made by users in imdb, mubi, icm, etc Distribution of points: For ranked lists: #1: 20 points #2: 18 points and so on until #10: 2 points #11 or lower: 1 point Not ranked lists: points are splitted equally. For instance: lists with 15 entries: 20+18+...+2+1+1+1+1+1=115 / 15 = 7.67 => 8 points for each film. Tied films split the points Bonus for each additional entry: 2 points Tie-brake rules: #1: Total of points #2: Number of entries #3: Year of release #4: Alphabetical order About this list: Lists used: 78 Nominated films: 200 My Top 10 (based on nominated films) (in alphabetical order) Citizen Kane (1941) Dogville (2003) Donnie Darko (2001) Inception (2010) Matrix, The (1999) Mulholland Dr. (2001) Oldeuboi (2003) Secreto de Sus Ojos, El (2009) Spoorloos (1988) Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) Others lists with the same methodology: Top 50 Business Films https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/top+50+business+films/baalman/ Top 50 Rock'n Roll Films https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/top+50+rockn+roll+films/baalman/ Top 50 Car Movies https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/top+50+car+movies/baalman/ Top 50 Films About Films https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/top+50+films+about+films/baalman/ Top 50 Films About Arts and Artists https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/top+50+films+about+art+and+artists/baalman/ Top 50 Dystopian Films https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/top+50+dystopian+films/baalman/ Top 50 Films About Politics https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/top+50+films+about+politics/baalman/ Top 50 Surrealistic Films http://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/top+50+surrealistic+films/baalman/ Top 50 Disturbing Films https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/top+50+disturbing+films/baalman/ Top 50 Films About Media https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/top+50+films+about+media/baalman/ Top 50 Films About Law https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/top+50+films+about+law/baalman/ Top 50 Films About Writers and Writing https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/top+50+films+about+writers+and+writing/baalman/ Top 50 Films About Conspiracy (Theories) https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/top+50+films+about+conspiracy+theories/baalman/ Top 50 Films About Mental Illness http://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/top+50+films+about+mental+illness/baalman/ Top 50 Films About Serial Killers https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/top+50+films+about+serial+killers/baalman/ Top 50 Pandemic Movies https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/top+50+pandemic+movies/baalman/ Top 50 Films about Drugs https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/top+50+films+about+drugs/baalman/ -
Tor.com I Decade's Best SFF Movies
Favs/dislikes: 4:0. The summer blockbuster season is now well on its way and considering all of the thunder gods, mermaids, mutants, and Johnny Depps flying around we can’t help but jabber on about SFF movies. In that spirit, we’re happy to announce the final results of the Tor.com Decade’s Best Science Fiction/Fantasy Movies Viewer’s Poll! More than 200 of you cast nearly 3500 votes over the course of seven days in April 2011 for over 400 movies, and from that we shook out 12 movies (more on that in a bit) that the science fiction and fantasy fans of Tor.com feel are the best movies of the past 11 years*. *Hereby known as a “Tor.com Decade.” In the same manner as our Best SFF Novels of the Decade Poll, we’ll be rolling out appreciations of these movies over the course of this week. Below the cut, take a look at the best SFF movies of this millennium! The Top Ten: The top ten Best SFF Movies of the Decade, chosen by Tor.com popular vote: -
Total Film: 50 Greatest London Movies
Favs/dislikes: 4:0. A list from Total Film. The 50 greatest movies set in London. Harry Potter is counted as one in the list, therefore it's 57 instead for 50. -
VGDebatt - Top 30 from the 1990s
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Vulture's 55 Essential Queer Horror Films
Favs/dislikes: 4:0. By Jordan Crucchiola JUNE 26, 2018 From 1934 until 1967, Hollywood movies were shaped by the Production Code, otherwise known as the Hays Code. Written in 1930, but not implemented until four years later, this set of rules was generally intended to keep movies from “corrupting” the people who watched them. Given that homosexuality was considered either a physical or psychological malady in the early 20th century, the code effectively legislated any limited queer presence out of existence. While homosexuality was not explicitly banned in the Hays’ text, it was mandated that “no picture shall be produced that will lower the moral standards of those who see it. Hence the sympathy of the audience should never be thrown to the side of crime, wrongdoing, evil or sin.” It was also codified that only “correct standards of life” should be presented,” and that “sex perversion or any inference to it is forbidden.” In other words, for a long time, cinematic queers were pushed underground, relegated to existing only in subtext — and most often as villains. In order to get queer stories onscreen, filmmakers had to find creative ways to subvert the system. Horror films in particular have made for a fascinating case study in the evolving perceptions of queer presence; queer-horror filmmakers and actors were often forced to lean into the trope of the “predatory queer” or the “monstrous queer” to claim some sense of power through visibility and blatant expressions of sexuality. Below is a beginner’s guide to the most essential queer horror of the past 90 years. It also doubles as a timeline of the evolution of queer horror: How LGBTQA themes and characters went from hiding between the lines in movies with “gay sensibilities” in the 1930s to breaking out as Pride memes almost a century later — going from invisible (lesbian ghosts!) to closeted (literally, in the case of Dorian Gray) to fabulously out (who wouldn’t have given in to Catherine Deneuve’s Miriam Blaylock?), before finally being allowed to exist as multidimensional characters onscreen. From the coded abominations of James Whale’s taboo-skirting films of the 1930s to the Pride reign of The Babadook, here’s our guide to queer horror cinema. 1-7: The 1930s and 1940s — Fear the Queer Monsters 8-12: The 1950s — Kitschy Monsters and More Queer Subtext 13-17: The 1960s — Farewell to the Hays Code 18-22: 1970s — The Lesbian Vampires Are Loose! 23-32: 1980s — Resurgent Conservatism, the AIDS Crisis, and the Mainstreaming of Queer Culture 33-38: 1990s — New Queer Cinema and Gay Vampire Dads 39-47: 2000s — Out and (Getting) Proud 48-55: 2010s — They’re Here. They’re Queer. Get Used to It. -
Vulture's The 50 Greatest Western Movies Ever Made
Favs/dislikes: 4:0. A hard look at one of cinema’s oldest genres. By Keith Phipps JAN. 18, 2021 America can only claim a few art forms as its own. Jazz, for sure. Comic books, certainly. It’s probably safe to add the Western to that list, too, even if — like jazz and comics — the Western has roots around the globe and has since been adopted in many lands. The history of movie Westerns more or less begins with the end of the Old West itself. Westerns thrived in the silent era, and though the genre’s popularity has ebbed and flowed ever since — largely fading from view in the ’80s but enjoy several resurgences in succeeding decades — it’s never threatened to fade away. The Western is a vital genre with the habit of reinventing itself every few years that doubles as a way to talk about America’s history while reflecting on its present. A strand of violent, psychologically complex Westerns that appeared in the 1950s, for example, captures both changing attitudes toward the settlement of the West and the treatment of Native Americans while channeling the spirit of a country still recovering from a devastating World War. And while there are certain themes and elements that define the genre, it’s also proven to be flexible, capable of playing host to many different stories and an infinite variety of characters. In Paul Greengrass’s terrific new film [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/news+of+the+world/]News of the World[/url], for instance, Tom Hanks plays a traveling newsreader whose attempt to return a girl to her family doubles as a tour of a country whose divisions look like clear roots to some of our current national troubles. This list of the 50 greatest Westerns reflects that wide legacy from the very first entry, a film directed by a Hungarian and starring a Tasmanian. It’s been assembled, however, working from a fairly traditional definition of the Western: films set along the America frontier of the 19th and the first years of the 20th century. That means no modern Westerns, no [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/logan/]stealth Westerns starring aged X-Men[/url], and no space Westerns with blasters instead of pistols. (We did, however, make an exception for a certain comedy that concludes with its stars attending its own premiere.) That, of course, still leaves a lot of great Westerns. More, of course, than could possibly fit on a top-50 list interested in capturing the full scope of the genre. As such, not every John Ford film made the list. Anthony Mann and James Stewart made eight Westerns together. Any of them could have been included, but not all of them have been. This list is designed to double as a guide to the genre’s many different forms in the hopes it will send readers to corners they might not know and reconsider some classics they might not have seen before. So with all that said, let’s kick it off with a trip to an especially rowdy Old Western town. -
Watch Mojo: Top 10 Horror Movies per Decade
Favs/dislikes: 4:0. The Top 10 Horror Movies per decade, 1920s-1950s to 2000s, per WatchMojo.com. From these lists, WatchMojo named the "Top 10 Horror Movies of All Time": 1. Psycho 2. The Exorcist 3. The Shining 4. Halloween 5. Dracula 6. Night of the Living Dead 7. A Nightmare on Elm Street 8. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 9. Rosemary's Baby 10. Friday the 13th -
Watchmojo's Greatest Movies of All Time
Favs/dislikes: 4:0. "These are the films that made Hollywood great. These movies are selected based on their iconic status, critical acclaim, box-office success, and watchability; and not what your film studies professor or most artsy movie critics would pick." -
WhatCulture's 30 Coolest Movies of All Time
Favs/dislikes: 4:0. "These are the movies that had you sitting back, nodding your head and muttering "This is awesome" under your breath; that offered up badass characters and unforgettable soundtracks; that were slick, suave, and super smooth. Above all, though, these movies embraced a sense of breezy effortlessness that seeped off the screen and into the aisles, essentially transferring their sense of stylishness and chic to everybody and anybody who saw 'em..." -
Wikipedia List of Films Based on Video Games
Favs/dislikes: 4:0. This list from Wikipedia encompasses all films across the globe based on video games. Referenced on the page but not included are short films, documentaries about video games and films with video game-related plots. US Theatrical Releases Japan Theatrical Releases China Theatrical Releases Television Films Direct-To-Video Animated Direct-To-Video Live Action Not on IMDB: Running Boy Star Soldier no Himitsu (1986) Pretty Rhythm All-Star Selection: Prism Show☆Best Ten (2014) -
Wikipedia's List of Fantasy Films
Favs/dislikes: 4:0. Inspired by Mochard's invaluable List of Science Fiction Films, this is Wikipedia's chronological list of commercially released fantasy films, from 1899 to the present. "Fantasy films are films with fantastic themes, usually involving magic, supernatural events, incredible creatures, or exotic fantasy worlds. The genre is considered a form of speculative fiction alongside science fiction films and horror films, although the genres do overlap. Fantasy films often have an element of magic, myth, wonder, escapism, and the extraordinary." -
Wikipedia's List of Films Considered the Worst
Favs/dislikes: 4:1. “The films listed below have been cited by a variety of notable critics in varying media sources as being among the worst films ever made. Examples of such sources include Metacritic, Roger Ebert's list of most-hated films, The Golden Turkey Awards, Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide, Rotten Tomatoes, pop culture writer Nathan Rabin's My World of Flops, the Stinkers Bad Movie Awards, the cult TV series Mystery Science Theater 3000 (alongside spin-offs Cinematic Titanic and Rifftrax), the cult web series The Cinema Snob and the Golden Raspberry Awards (aka the "Razzies").” - Wikipedia List is presented chronologically. -
X-Men Cinematic Universe Timeline (Chronologically)
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10 great films about life in the digital age
Favs/dislikes: 3:0. Remember when it took ages to dial up and go online in the early days of the digital age? Hollywood’s relationship with the internet evolved at a similar pace, with stories that struggled to connect our everyday experiences online with narratives that actually made sense. Because of this lag, there have been plenty of films that failed to represent the internet accurately without already feeling dated by the time that they hit our screens. Even as far back as 1999, our online experiences were already about so much more than just the sprawling green code seen in The Matrix, and since then countless techno-thrillers have shown hackers somehow infiltrating top-tier government systems in the blink of an eye. However, there are some directors out there who have managed to cut through the clichés to better represent what life is really like now we live so much of it online. With the internet now 30 years old, here are 10 powerful time capsules charting our digital evolution. -
10 Great Movies That Meditate On Time
Favs/dislikes: 3:0. Cinema is truly one of the most complex forms of art. Legendary director Andrei Tarkovsky once said, “No art form can fix time as cinema does. So, what is a film? It’s a mosaic made of time.” In this list, we’re approaching movies that somehow have reflections about time in its theme (or themes). As always, it is never too late to remember that many aspects interfere on the choice of the titles of an article like this. But, as usual, memory and personal preferences are the main factors. If you think any other movie should be on this list, please leave it as a recommendation in the comments section below. So, here are 10 amazing movies that meditate on time: -
10 great whodunnit mysteries
Favs/dislikes: 3:0. Rian Johnson’s Knives Out joins the devilishly entertaining tradition of suspect-filled murder mysteries in which the audience plays sleuth. Rian Johnson’s riotously enjoyable movie Knives Out has all the ingredients of a classic whodunnit: a dead body in a country house, a variety of plausible suspects, an eccentric investigator and a plot with more twists than a coiled rattlesnake. Daniel Craig plays Benoit Blanc, a southern-fried sleuth called in to solve the murder of novelist and patriarch Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer). Naturally, suspicion falls on every member of his family, and Blanc must eliminate them one by one. From the procedural cop shows on TV to big-screen thrillers, the murder mystery is perennially popular, but the classic whodunnit makes more sporadic appearances. Part intellectual puzzle, part comedy, the whodunnit is at its most enjoyable when it is witty and light on its feet. It’s not about doling out justice, but tickling the audience with the pleasures of plot and character. That’s partly why Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap remains the longest-running show in the West End – although she famously asked the audience not to reveal the ending to their friends. In a perfect whodunnit the identity of the murderer should not be easily guessed at the outset, although looking back there will have been unmistakable clues. The plot should be garlanded with so many red herrings and dead ends that the audience’s heads are spinning by the end anyway. The detective may be an amateur, but he or she must be brilliantly clever, utterly idiosyncratic and dogged in their pursuit of the one person who had the means, the motive and the opportunity to commit the murder. For the most satisfying possible finale, the culprit’s true identity should be unveiled with a flourish, in front of all the suspects who have been gathered for the coup de théâtre. While Knives Out is self-consciously a throwback to the classic form, packed with allusions to its predecessors, this is a sub-genre that has taken a few enjoyable detours of its own. So let the games begin… -
100 best comedy by Maxim
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100 Best Movies of All Time (according to 24/7 Wall St.)
Favs/dislikes: 3:0. Film is arguably the art form that evokes the most emotions. And great films are those that move audiences most. They generate a deep connection between moviegoers and the story. While 24/7 Wall St.’s list of 100 best movies of all time attempts a more impartial approach of aggregating and averaging critic and audience reviews, these reviews were no doubt influenced by the films’ emotional appeal. -
1001 popular movies at the 2000s box-office
Favs/dislikes: 3:0. Top 1001 grossing movies released in the 2000s. Box-office not adjusted for inflation. Number of movies of each year : 2000 : 90 2001 : 90 2002 : 102 2003 : 98 2004 : 98 2005 : 109 2006 : 103 2007 : 99 2008 : 110 2009 : 98 Other year : 1995 & 1999 (Toy Story and Toy Story 2 Double Feature + Fantasia 2000) -
15 Great Films That Let Your Eyes Do The Editing
Favs/dislikes: 3:0. Since the birth of cinema the average shot length (ASL) of films has been getting shorter and shorter, and when we talk about ASL (if you don’t know) we’re talking about how long a shot lasts before cutting. The lower the ASL, the more separate shots a film contains. To give you a practical example, Spun (Jonas Åkerlund, 2002) has an ASL of around 1.2, meaning that the average duration of a shot before cutting is a mere 1.2 seconds long, whereas Some Like it Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959) has an ASL of around 12.4. As a general guideline, ASLs for all films were much longer in the past, and over the decades people like Barry Salt have done exceptional work tracking the changing form of cinema, and looking at how films feature more and more cuts, and shorter and shorter takes as the medium has developed. Editing is something that we’ve become impatient for these days: we see the object, recognise its significance, and move on as quickly as possible. And this is something we’re taught to do: ‘keep it tight’, ‘cut, cut, cut’ and so on. But there’s an interesting conversation to be had about what happens when an audience is presented with a sustained frame, one that they are allowed to edit with their eyes by choosing where to look. -
15 Of The Most Confusing Films Ever Made
Favs/dislikes: 3:0. As seen here: http://www.popcrunch.com/most-confusing-films/ -
16 Best Liminal Space Horror Movies That Define the Genre
Favs/dislikes: 3:0. The word "liminal" is something we have been hearing more and more these days. The word is nothing new but its definition pertains to a lot of what we see around us. Liminal is a word that relates to transition, or the initial stages of a transitional process. Think of it as the end of one thing, but the next phase of whatever it may be describing, has yet to really take shape. Horror is often, if not always, a reflection of the world around us and how we react to it. It's the fear of the unknown in everyday life. Whether you like it or not, the 2020s have kicked off in a very liminal way. The old ways seemed to have been torn down, but we've yet to see a new world come together. Many are nostalgic of the past, but the problem with nostalgia is that it feels good to stare at something that reminds you of the good ol'days, but you will never truly obtain what it meant and felt like ever again. Look around you, the world many of us were promised no longer exists. Malls are closing, technology is advancing, politics sways back and forth between conservative and progressive ideals, and here we all are, waiting for something new in this liminal space of life. To help us through that transition is a long list of liminal horror films that hit that spot of feeling like and limbo as you yearn for a past you can't have anymore. -
17 Essential Movies For An Introduction To Essay Films
Favs/dislikes: 3:0. Put most concisely by Timothy Corrigan in his book on the essay film: ‘from its literary origins to its cinematic revisions, the essayistic describes the many-layered activities of a personal point of view as a public experience’. Perhaps a close cousin to documentary, the essay film is at its core a personal mode of filmmaking. Structured in a breadth of forms, a partial definition could be said to be part fact, part fiction with an intense intimacy (but none of these are necessarily paramount). Stemming from the literary essay as a form of personal expression borne from in-depth explorations of its chosen topic, the essay film can be agitprop, exploratory, or diaristic and generally rejects narrative progression and concretised conclusions in favour of a thematic ambivalence. Due to its nature as inherently personal, the term itself is as vague and expansive as the broad collective of films it purports to represent. To borrow Aldous Huxley’s definition, the essay is a device for saying almost everything about almost anything. In built then is an inherent expansiveness that informs a great ambition in the form itself, but as Huxley acknowledges it can only say almost anything; whether extolling the need for a socialist state (Man with a Movie Camera), deconstructing the power and status of the image itself (Histoire(s) du Cinema, Images of the World and the Inscription of War, Los Angeles Plays Itself) or providing a means to consider ones of past (Walden, News from home, Blue), the essay film is only the form of expression, which unlike any other taxonomic term suggests almost nothing about the film itself other than its desire to explore. Below is an 17 film introduction to the essay film that cannot be pinned down and continue to remake and remodel itself as freely as it sheds connections between any of the films within its own canon.
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