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All posts by Alex Withrow
Top 10 Atypical Performances from Frat Pack Members
Generally speaking, the comedic styles of the members of the Frat Pack simply do not work for me. More often than not, I find that the actors of this self appointed group act more or less the same in every movie. But occasionally (i.e. usually before their com...
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Top 10 Movies with a Main Character Title
I’ve always thought naming a movie a character’s name was a huge risk. If you think about it, a name reveals nothing. Nothing about the plot or story of the movie. So, while the 10 films below may not be equipped with the most revealing titles, they are all ex...
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Top 10 Courtroom Films
When I was a newspaper beat reporter, one of my first big assignments was covering a murder trial. The case: A mother and her daughter had killed their mother/grandmother while she slept. Stabbed her 57 times. Planned it for two months. Sounds compelling, righ...
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Top 10 Oscar Winners Whose Careers Faltered Post-Win
Most all of the actors below continued to work after winning Oscars, but none of them have delivered a performance that is on par with the one that merited them an Academy Award.
Note of distinction: Because the Oscars are for film, I’m concerned only with ...
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Top 10 English-speaking Movies that Require Subtitles
Whether movie characters talk fast or have insanely thick accents (or both), sometimes subtitles work better for films, even when they’re speaking your language. And make no mistake, I love each of the films below, I’m just having a little fun with their unint...
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Top 10 Found Footage Films
I typically try to avoid found footage flicks at all cost, but occasionally, I find one worth mentioning. And while the found footage genre is mostly limited to horror films (and mostly awful ones at that) many decent films in many different genres have used ...
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Top 15 Baffling Things About the AFI Lists
I have an in-no-way-constructive hobby of seriously hating on the American Film Institutes’ various Top 100 lists. Their initial 100 Years…100 Movies list from 1998 was decent enough – a fine collection of American films with pretty solid rankings. But in the ...
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Top 15 Movies Under 85 Minutes
Although I find myself typically in defense of the long film, there’s something to be said for a great film that takes up very little of your time. The following movies only have two things in common: they’re remarkable, and they all clock in under an hour and...
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Top 10 NC-17 Rated Films
In America, the NC-17 film rating carries a lot of baggage. Because of the nature of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) – in all its absurd censorship – if a film is rated NC-17, it is more or less dead theatrically. The marketing for an NC-17 ra...
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Top 10 Worst Movie Dads
Fathers are supposed to care, provide, love, and so on. Not these fellas. Instead, these cinematic patriarchs drink, kill, molest – you name it, all to unnerving degrees. Like a train-wreck, you can’t help but watch in fascination and horror. And this is a dif...
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