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In the world of movies, the smart money is always on sequels failing to live up to the film that inspired them. Decades of cinema history offer pretty concrete evidence that the odds are always against sequels. In fact, some of the very best movies ever made have led to some of the worst sequels ever made, something we explored at length on a recent list. Now it’s time to test the odds in the opposite direction, and to take a look look at sequels that were not only good, they were actually better than the middling to outright badmovies that preceded them. These sorts of films are rare — far ra...
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Movies and television, despite the fact that both are mediums where actors reenacting usually fictional scenarios are recorded on cameras and screened for rapt audiences, are not the same. They’re completely different mechanisms for storytelling — one is obviously longer than the other, with more of an emphasis on character and story evolution, while the other tells an immediately compelling plot in a more economical amount of time. All those people back in the day who kept talking about how Game of Thrones is just a “long movie” were talking nonsense. That doesn’t mean that the two can’t cros...
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The old saying goes “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.” That is especially true in the world of movies. There isn’t a film out there that everyone universally loves or everyone universally hates. There are people who think The Godfather is overrated and people who think Gigli is a misunderstood classic. Cinematic beauty is always in the eyes of the beholder. For proof of that, check out the 30 films below. They are all personal favorites of mine that, according to the wider general consensus, were flops, bombs, and stinkers. Not to me! If you ask me, all of these titles deserve a seco...
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Nikki Haley will be living in style when she returns home to South Carolina after dropping out of the 2024 presidential race. The former Republican hopeful owns a 4-bedroom, 4.5-bathroom, 5,699-square-foot mansion on an island that looks like a private paradise. Haley, 52, and husband, Michael, purchased the luxurious residence for $2.4 million in 2019, according to Realtor.com. Haley was serving as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations at the time, a post that she ascended to after previously serving as the Republican Governor of South Carolina from 2011-2017. Haley announced that she wou...
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The Oscars are the unofficial conclusion to a year of movies. Yes, a calendar year technically ends on December 31. But for cinephiles, the year is not done until the thousands of members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have their say, and name the winners of their annual awards. Only then can we all collectively move on to the new year’s crop of movies. But history gets the true final word on any and every film, not the Academy. Just because a title wins Oscars — even if a title wins the prize for Best Picture of the year — doesn’t mean it will graduate to canonical masterp...
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The Oscars are the unofficial conclusion to a year of movies. Yes, a calendar year technically ends on December 31. But for cinephiles, the year is not done until the thousands of members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have their say, and name the winners of their annual awards. Only then can we all collectively move on to the new year’s crop of movies. But history gets the true final word on any and every film, not the Academy. Just because a title wins Oscars — even if a title wins the prize for Best Picture of the year — doesn’t mean it will graduate to canonical masterp...
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Letterboxd’s database categorizes movies into 19 different genres: Action, adventure, animation, crime, documentary, drama, family, fantasy, history, horror, music, mystery, romance, science fiction, thriller, TV movie (is that a genre?), war, western … and comedy. In each category, users can filter and arrange the movies in a myriad of ways: By decade of release, by where and how the films are available to rent or stream, by how popular they are on the site, alphabetically, or according to how Letterboxd’s millions of users have rated them using the site’s zero to five-star scale. The site’s ...
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Letterboxd’s database categorizes movies into 19 different genres: Action, adventure, animation, crime, documentary, drama, family, fantasy, history, horror, music, mystery, romance, science fiction, thriller, TV movie (is that a genre?), war, western … and comedy. In each category, users can filter and arrange the movies in a myriad of ways: By decade of release, by where and how the films are available to rent or stream, by how popular they are on the site, alphabetically, or according to how Letterboxd’s millions of users have rated them using the site’s zero to five-star scale. The site’s ...
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Every sequel is a risky creative proposition. But there are two words that always make me nervous when I see them in a sequel’s title: Part Two. That’s because when you call something a part two, you’re telling the audience that you’re doing more than simply continuing the story of a movie people loved. A “Part 2” announces that the aforementioned story people loved wasn’t complete after all — and that you in order to see the full picture, you need to watch this new film. In some cases, that is actually true, like when filmmakers are adapting a book that’s so epic in scope they decide to break...
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Adam Sandler has been a making movies for over 30 years. In Billy Madison, Billy Madison is only 27. (We are all so old.) After a very successful stint on Saturday Night Live, Sandler quickly found huge box-office success — although not always critical praise — headlining a series of comedies. That success continues to this day. He launched his own (also quite successful) production company, Happy Madison Productions, and cranked out films at a clip of one or two every single year. In 2024, he passed 50 film roles. (For a guy with a reputation among some reviewers as a “lazy” actor — just Goog...
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