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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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Top 10 “Kids’ Stuff” Movies
For those of us who either never really grew up, or just have a really open mind about valid subject matter for a film (depends on if you ask us or our families, I suppose), the truly great film based on material done originally for children seems nearly impos...
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Top 10 ‘Fugitive In Hiding’ Movies
If there's one thing of which the movies simply cannot get enough, it's outlaws. And how better to really turn the narrative screws against them than to put them on the run, having recently escaped from some overbearing force that desperately wants to get ahol...
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Top 10 Classic Star/Director Collaborations
With Leonardo DiCaprio & Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street attacking the box office, awards season, and cheap editorials nationwide, it's as good a time as any to consider those very special working relationships between a director and star that tr...
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Video: The 50 Best Movies of 2013
Michael Mirasol has created a short video showcasing our picks for the best films of last year.
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Top 10 Non-Franchise Spy Films
With Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit barreling into theaters this weekend, it seems Hollywood will never tire of attaching increasingly-nonsensical phrases onto their most popular spy franchises (Ghost Protocol? Quantum of Solace?); or, in the case of Jack Ryan, tho...
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Hainline’s 50 Most Anticipated Films of 2014
Last year, I provided for this site my Top 50 Most Anticipated Films of 2013. As someone who sees well north of 100 films a year, whittling down options from the upcoming calendar is a Herculean task to undertake (The Rock, not Kellan Lutz). However, I have pe...
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