Southern Gothic is a uniquely American genre and sensibility, focusing as it does on the American South and its haunted and traumatic histories. These films and TV series are often set in crumbling mansions or other seedy locales, places haunted by the sinister histories that haunt the American imagination.
There are some premises that you hear are at the center of a musical, and it just makes sense. Mostly, they are about star-crossed lovers. Or about how the hills are alive with the sound of music.
Veteran character actor Eddie Driscoll, who appeared on shows such as Entourage, Mad Men, Sex and the City, and This Is Us, has died. He was 60. As reported by The Hollywood Reporter, the passing was confirmed by actor Jimmy Palumbo, who said Driscoll died from a saddle pulmonary embolism after suffering from stomach cancer for several months.
Few series have enjoyed quite the level of longevity and enduring cultural relevance as Saturday Night Live. Though hundreds and hundreds of skits have emerged over the years, only a few have managed to truly earn a place in the SNL canon.
The '70s were a groundbreaking decade for cinema. Building off the momentum of Hollywood's New Wave and the arthouse boom, the '70s gave us more classics than just about any other decade.
Many movies are built around transportation gone wild. These are the best of the bunch.
With one exception, here are the nine (*eight) masterpieces from PTA, ranked.
Listen, Netflix and Hulu are great. But if you love movies--and I mean really love movies-- there is only one streaming option for you. The Criterion Channel has thousands of classics to choose from, many of which have won Oscars, Golden Globes and received film festival honors.
Snake Plissken stands tall in the pantheon of great action hero names, though he has some stiff competition. Here are twenty-five of the roughest, toughest, and most unusual.
Villains are a delight. They're supposed to be wild and evil and way over the top. You can brainstorm villain names all day, and wind up with twenty usable variations. Oftentimes, you'll err on the side of restraint, but you need to go bonkers to get there.
Many a notable movie has been set in Boston or its nearby environs. There are, after all, a few colleges and universities of renown in the area. Here are our best movies set in the epicenter of Massachusetts.
It’s a great time to be a fan of classic movies. These days, you can catch almost every notable film streaming somewhere online, and movies pop up here and there every month.
Whether or not the road trip itself is one we’d like to take, these are the best movies about road trips. Stay home and watch one today.
Who are the Streeps and the Nicholsons of the Razzies, the Golden Raspberry Awards, which are dedicated to the worst in film?
This year marks the 45th People’s Choice Award event, and what’s an award show without a good host?
Here are the 25 most iconic film and TV vehicles, ranked in order of their first appearances.
Some people think anything that has come out after the turn of the millennium is not any good. Why, some people even refuse to watch anything in black and white. They are only hurting themselves.
For 39 years, John J.B. Wilson's Golden Raspberries, better known as the "Razzies," have been a mock award that "celebrates" the worst in film. Now as we know, bad is as subjective as good, but sometimes bad isn't that bad at all.
Since receiving his first official film scoring credit in 1961 with "The Fascist," Ennio Morricone has written the music for over 300 movies. To honor the maestro on his 90th birthday on Nov. 10, let's court the fury of Morriconistas the world over and single out his 25 greatest and most significant works.
Back when summer movies still meant something, 20th Century Fox swung for the fences with a high-concept film featuring a relatively unknown cast. More than thirty years later, "Die Hard" sits atop the upper echelon of action movies as one of the greatest.
The quarter drops, player one presses start, and from there, we're transported into various worlds of fantasy. Much like film, video games offer a mix of storytelling and action that would seem natural for a migration to the big screen.
On November 17, 2017, Diana Ross will receive the American Music Awards' Lifetime Achievement honor. Ross already won the Grammys' equivalent award in 2012 and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988.
Welp, it’s over. While the New England Patriots Super Bowl Parade brought us Rob Gronkowski doing Rob Gronkowski things, it also brought us a very sad realization: meaningful football won’t be around for another seven months.
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