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by Nigel Druitt
In This Corner…
Sometimes good people do evil things.
Sometimes, it arises from a false sense of security, the mistaken idea of a victimless crime. Sometimes, it’s just part of the job. In this episode of Reel Rumbles, two films face off that feature decent characters performing heinous acts. The circumstances are different, but the results are the same: The lives of Hank Mitchell and Paul Edgecombe are forever altered by the very bad things they are forced – or choose – to do.
Join us for a walk on the darker side of humanity with A Simple Plan vs. The Green Mile. Read the rest of this entry »
Ah, the 1980s. My generation has taken nostalgia from a wistful remembrance and turned it into a marketing campaign. If you mention this decade in the context of film, you’ll likely find yourself in conversation about the numerous blockbusters and the franchises built from them, but there were also a lot of entertaining comedies that have largely fallen by the wayside as basic cable programmers have abandoned older comedies to the history books. Here are some of the gems waiting for you on Netflix.
- In: What to Watch on Netflix Watch Instantly
- Tags: 1980's, Amazon Instant Video, big, Blake Edwards, Blind Date, Bruce Dern, Bruce Willis, Carrie Fisher, Corey Feldman, Henry Winkler, John Larroquette, Kim Basinger, Kirstie Alley, Mark Harmon, Michael Keaton, Netflix, Night Shift, Phil Hartman, Rick Docummun, Risky Business, Ron Howard, Shelley Long, Summer School, The 'Burbs, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Tom Hanks, William Daniels
Directors Who Dominate: Steven Spielberg
27, Jan 2011by Nigel Druitt
Since last fall’s revamping of Flickchart‘s global ranking system (see the official announcement about that here), many films have found themselves moved around on the global charts. But one thing remains consistent: the Directors Who Dominate continue to do so. Previously covered in this series, Christopher Nolan and Quentin Tarantino remain at the top of the charts (with their highest-ranked films at #1 and #4, respectively.) But the biggest change is that their newest efforts (Inception and Inglourious Basterds) have a much stronger presence on the chart, where they now appear at #2 and #13. And this brings us to another director who continually dominates, the man who is widely regarded (for good or ill) as the father of the modern blockbuster: Steven Spielberg.
- In: Directors Who Dominate
- Tags: 1941, 1975, 1981, 1984, 1993, 2001, 2005, 2009, A.I.: Artificial Intelligence, Amistad, Best Picture, Box Office, Catch Me If You Can, Christopher Nolan, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, Empire of the Sun, film, films, Flickchart, George Lucas, Gremlins, Harrison Ford, Hook, Inception, Indiana Jones, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Inglourious Basterds, James Bond, Jaws, jurassic park, Leonardo DiCaprio, Minority Report, movies, Munich, Peter Jackson, Quentin Tarantino, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Richard Dreyfuss, Robert Shaw, Roy Scheider, Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List, Shakespeare in Love, Star Trek, Star Wars, Steven Spielberg, Super 8, The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, The Color Purple, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, The Terminal, Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks, War Horse, War of the Worlds
New Video Releases for the Week of April 13, 2010
13, Apr 2010
by Daniel Rohr
We picked a pretty lousy two week stretch to open this column with. Last week’s biggest release did $1.7 million at the US box office and this week’s hit $8 million. By all accounts Bad Lieutenant and Pirate Radio (aka The Boat That Rocked) are good movies, they just aren’t that sexy to kick a column off with (well, aside from stars Eva Mendes and January Jones).
So, here are this week’s new DVD, Blu-ray, and Netflix Instant Watch titles. Each film will include their Flickchart global statistics (when available), as well as three direct links to rank the title against similar movies (one good, one average and one bad) to help nail down where the movie belongs on your chart.
- In: New Releases
- Tags: apollo 13, chris tucker, cliff robertson, Coen Brothers, Daniel Day-Lewis, defendor, dick van dyke, earth girls are easy, eric bana, eva mendes, fitzwilly, frantic, gemma arterton, Harrison Ford, henry fonda, hot fuzz, jackie chan, january jones, jay leno, Jim Carrey, kevin spacey, Lance Henriksen, love the beast, michael clarke duncan, Moon, nick frost, pirate radio, ronald reagan, rush hour 2, Sam Rockwell, sean connery, slammin salmon, The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, the best man, the great mouse detective, the man who wasnt there, the offence, the unbearable lightness of being, Timothy Dalton, Tom Hanks, vincent price, Woody Harrelson
Let’s Embrace Remake Madness
5, Apr 2010by Daniel Rohr
I watched Dragnet with Tom Hanks and Dan Aykroyd a few days ago, and once I was done trying to figure out why Christopher Plummer would so thoroughly humiliate himself in a nothing role, I began to really think; What TV shows from my conscious lifetime (I am 23, so let’s stick to 90′s and 00′s) will most likely be remade into movies 20 or so years from now? It’s a strange thought. I can completely accept the Dragnet, Get Smart, or upcoming A-Team movies because the only knowledge of the shows I really have is what’s been passed down into pop culture. That ignorance, due to not existing, is actually a huge help in limiting the mental baggage I take into the movie with me. I don’t fully understand what life was life back then, and how each show’s little eccentricities reflected that. They are essentially just ported to fit into the way today’s culture runs.
Tom Hanks’s Adventures on Flickchart
11, Mar 2010by Daniel Rohr
We all have our demons. When a particularly tough match-up shows up, those nightmares manifest on Flickchart and haunt us until we finally muster up the courage to click. Some of us aren’t that lucky though. These are their stories.
Meet Tom Hanks.
53 years old, modestly handsome, and preposterously nice. What follows are the final two minutes of his Flickcharting life.