5 Favorite Things: The Thing (1982)

JayOctober 31, 2015

John Carpenter's The Thing is a film about a thing, who can transform into other things. It's my favorite Carpenter film, and that's largely due to the creatu...

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5 Favorite Things: Escape From New York (1981)

JayOctober 31, 2015

John Carpenter's Escape From New York is a monument to insanity, the kind of film that cannot, and should not, be taken seriously, but which if you get on boa...

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5 Favorite Things: Titanic (1997)

JayJuly 11, 2015

Titanic is James Cameron's 1997 tribute to aquatic destruction, with added culture clash romance so it didn't just seem like an excuse to destroy a big boat. ...

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5 Favorite Things: Marie Antoinette

JessMay 31, 2015

In honor of our director of the month, Sofia Coppola, I decided to rewatch a film of hers that I haven't seen since it first came out. It was a pleasant experi...

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5 Favorite Things: Shaun of the Dead (2004)

JayFebruary 26, 2015

Edgar Wright's first well-received feature was 2004's zom-rom-com Shaun of the Dead, which surprised an awful lot of people (myself included) by being actuall...

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5 Favorite Things: The Insider

JessJanuary 31, 2015

While Heat might be Michael Mann's most prominent work, The Insider is easily his best regarded. It was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Pict...

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5 Favorite Things: Rear Window

JayOctober 28, 2014

Rear Window is easily amongst my top 3 Hitchcock movies (not as good as North By Northwest, slightly better than Psycho, but they're all 10/10). It tells the ...

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5 Favorite (and Least Favorite) Things: Jurassic Park: The Lost World (1997)

JayJuly 19, 2014

I'm doing something a little different with this 5 Favorite Things post. You see, it's no secret that Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park is far and away my favori...

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5 Favorite Things: Slumdog Millionaire (2008)

JayMay 12, 2014

When I think of Danny Boyle movies I automatically skip back to his early British films: Shallow Grave, Trainspotting and 28 Days Later, before expanding to i...

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5 Favorite Things: The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)

JayMarch 31, 2014

The Royal Tenenbaums, Wes Anderson's third feature, sees a splintered family being reunited when the estranged patriach, played by a never-better Gene Hackm...

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5 Favorite Things: Moneyball (2011)

LindsayMarch 24, 2014

In more ways than one, I didn't quite know what to expect going into Bennett Miller's 2011 film Moneyball. For starters, this particular movie happened to be ...

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5 Favorite Things: Rushmore (1998)

JayMarch 23, 2014

Rushmore is the 2nd film directed by Wes Anderson and as sophomore efforts go it's a pretty great example. Telling the story of simultaneously over- and und...

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