8 years ago
All posts by Scott Nye
Top 10 Office Movies
With Mad Men coming back on the air for its (bifurcated) final season, and me returning to work after a wonderful weekend at the Turner Classic Movies Classic Film Festival, I've got offices on my mind. Luckily, the office is not an infrequent topic in cinemat...
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Top 10 Behind-the-Scenes Sports Movies
It seems like you can't round a corner without running into one movie or another telling the so-inspirational story of some underdog athlete who beats the odds and did a thing really really well. But the world of sport is as much a world of business as it is o...
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Top 10 Sequels Gone Awry
While it's easy to look at the machinations of the commercially-driven studio system as inherently anti-artist, the truth is, most people just don't want to expend all that much effort to yield a significant return. And so, when coming off the heels of a signi...
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Top 10 Christian-Themed Movies
With Son of God and God's Not Dead finding modest purchase at the box office (and considerable fruition in think pieces everywhere) and Darren Aronofsky's Noah ready and waiting to frustrate just about everybody, it would seem that Christians have a harder tim...
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Top 10 Chicago Movies
Despite being the nation's third most populous city, Chicago remains oddly underrepresented on film. Loving natives like John Hughes, David Mamet, and Michael Mann really latched onto it and made it an integral aspect of the cinematic expression, but it remain...
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Top 10 Films of 1932
The limited release of The Grand Budapest Hotel this past weekend was catnip for those of us who are fans of either a) Wes Anderson, b) classic Hollywood cinema, or especially c) all of the above. With the film being set predominantly in 1932 (or at least an a...
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Top 10 Science Fiction Films of This World
Science fiction, that genre so perfectly suited to speculate on the future, re-imagine the past, and conjure entire worlds that seem impossible by any logical standard, is sometimes at its most compelling by casting new light on the present, the precise time a...
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Top 10 Stuck on Transportation Movies
All movies aim to transport us, but only a few do so by such literal means. In honor of the upcoming Liam Neeson thriller Non-Stop, here are, as far as I'm concerned, the top ten films that take place, at least mostly, within the confines of a single mode of t...
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Top 10 Snow Movies
While I've been fortunate enough to avoid the Polar Vortex here in sunny Los Angeles, much of the rest of the country has been trapped in varying levels of snow, all the while keeping their eyes on an Olympic games that had deliver the required frost manually....
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Top 10 Romantic Fantasy Films
As anyone who has watched nearly any animated Disney film knows, romance and fantasy fit splendidly together. The dizzying rapture of love manifests physically in elements that are very much not of this world. It becomes at once familiar and strange, frighteni...
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