We can hope our favorite movie will come away with the big prize, but in the long run, some of the best pictures ever made did not receive Best Picture Oscars.
There are a lot of things that are popular and commercial, but aren't very good. Or are just good enough. Consider Justin Bieber: It's not that the kid isn't talented; it's that he's only just talented enough.
All great movies -- and great movie endings -- stay in our memories as normal or indifferent ones never could. They're like great taglines -- their strength lies in the very fact that we can't forget them.
It was supposed to be a documentary about the dead zones in the Chesapeake Bay. But the material he was reading about the pollution of the bay was too scary. So director Barry Levinson made a horror movie instead: The Bay.
Mitt Romney has been making a valient effort to tell America who he is, but so far, he hasn't been terribly successful. But there's no need to reinven...
The Warwick Hotel in midtown Manhattan has a rather risqué past, thanks to the likes of William Randolph Hearst and his longtime girlfriend, Marion Davies.
Even though it was recently bumped down to the second greatest movie of all time, it's hard to imagine a world where Orson Welles' "Citizen Kane" woul...
Bullet In The Face stars Eddie Izzard and Eric Roberts as two hilariously vicious rival business owners/crime lords happy to annihilate anyone in their way. And who stands in their way? Everyone.
Sight & Sound caused quite a stir in the film community this week when the magazine's list of the greatest movies ever -- as voted on by a panel of 84...
News on the march: Sight & Sound has released its once-per-decade international film critics' poll to determine the best films ever, and for the first...
Every 10 years, leading film critics around the world choose a list of top films. While the Top 10 changes, one thing has long remained unchanged: Citizen Kane is the greatest film ever. But The Godfather is doing some creeping of its own.
As Hollywood continues to pump out horror flicks full of gore and romantic comedies with endings a toddler could have predicted, we need to address Hollywood's belief in quantity over quality.
I worked for Bingham from 2008-2010 and learned some of life's greatest lessons: Don't buy cheap coffee, always use a French press, and lie when someone asks you if you've seen Citizen Kane and you haven't.
At 25 years old, Orson Welles co-wrote, directed, and starred in "Citizen Kane," which was inspired by the life of newspaper magnate William Randolph ...
The Artist may be the year's most brightly imaginative and purely enjoyable film.
It may also be the toughest sell. How many people, after all, will ...
If I could get all those black and white haters out there to watch just ten titles -- movies that constituted absolutely essential viewing -- which would they be?
LOS ANGELES -- The Associated Press -- Newspapers themselves have been making headlines lately, with the British tabloid News of the World collapsing ...
Judging by the comments that previous Overrated lists have received (not to mention the book itself), many people don't like it when something is called "overrated."