When it comes to action cinema, it's typical that a director with a lot of experience is brought on board who can be trusted to helm the complicated stunts, fights, chases, explosions, pratfalls and what have you that make up the genre. Just occasionally, however, we get to see a filmmaker come right out of the gate with an action movie and, if not always a classic, it's pretty much guaranteed to be a fascinating watch. Which is the greatest action debut?
On April 4, 2023, Warner Bros. Entertainment celebrated the 100th anniversary of its founding as Warner Bros. in 1923. It released its first film, Where the North Begins (1923), s…
Lalo Schifrin (born 1932) is an Argentine-American pianist, composer, arranger and conductor. He is best known for his large body of film and TV scores since the 1950s, incorporating jazz and Latin A…
Warning: Some may contain SPOILER! “The earth is suffocating. Swear to make them cut me open, so I won’t be buried alive.” - Frédéric Chopin Being buried alive itself is the worst nightmare to begin w…
Which of these movie titles/job descriptions best suits you? Reprising a poll from 2008: http://www.imdb.com/poll/results/2008-10-11 Discuss this poll at: http://www.imdb.com/board/bd0000088/thread/2…
Neo-Western is a subgenre of the Western that reflects the traditions of the western film genre like characters, settings, and themes but is set in the contemporary, even urban, American West or front…
In 2004, Both Empire Magazine and Premiere Magazine released their lists of 100 Greatest Film Characters Of All Time. These are the characters that featured in both of these lists. Which one of these …
Many movie quotes became iconic because they could adapt to everyday situations that justified quoting the film... starting with the film itself Indeed, some quotes were even more legendary because th…
There are endless amounts of great movie scenes, so to narrow it down the folks over at the poll board each suggested their favourites to make this list. Which do you deem to be the greatest?
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Which of these quotes that come at the movie's climax, would you refer to as the most thrilling? (even emotionally, since they're not all from action movies)
Now, that's quite a naughty one... and I'm not too proud of it, but here it goes: from this list of 25 classic movie quotes, all of them delivered in a totally unsexual context (this is why "I've…
For the sake of thrills, drama or comic relief, many serial police-themed movies (at least three movies) became instant classics that never let their audience down... although some of them showed some…
The peak of the 'New Hollywood' period, 1971 was perhaps one of the greatest years for thrills and movie violence. Which of these 13 classic thrillers is the most heart-pounding? Discuss here
Now that I've got your attention, here's the real question : This is a list of 35 classic movies whose title in French is far from being a literary translation. When turned into English, it's like the…
The definitions of abstract concepts like genres can be notoriously hard to pin down, so, rather than leave everybody to fight amongst themselves about what exactly a "western" or a "th…