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Top 10 Sports Films Of All Time
It’s exactly that time of year. Major League Baseball is nearing their postseason, both hockey and basketball are on the horizon, and with professional and college level football in full swing, it’s Fall and it’s sports season. And throughout cinema history, s...
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10 Great Labor Day Movies
Growing up, Labor Day was just an excuse to have a long weekend and avoid school. But after my first job, which involved the weekly cleaning of a truck warehouse, I began to have serious respect for the working man. Since then, movies detailing hard workers st...
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10 Movies That Induced Childhood Trauma
I like being scared.
I grew up on horror movies, which isn't to say they didn't do some form of psychological damage to me. I'm sure that we've all seen movies as children that traumatized us in one form or another. Whether it's the supernatural or the seem...
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10 Movies I’ve Seen Too Many Times To Count
I was recently asked how many times I’d seen All About Eve, the movie that topped my 10 best of all time list. To my surprise, I realized I’d seen it about 20-25 times since I first saw it in on video in 1987. That didn’t seem like a great number for a movie I...
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10 Plane Crazy Movies
After 7 years of the jet-setting lifestyle, my tired old body forced me to take a non-travel position at my job. Two weeks into my new role, the realization that I’m literally grounded for life hit me like a ton of bricks. For 1/6th of my life, I travelled th...
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10 Quality Movies That Left Their Hearts in San Francisco
San Francisco is my second favorite city in America. My job headquarters is there, which means I get to see the City by the Bay at least twice a year. Like my favorite city, New York, San Francisco has given us so many cinematic contributions. It’s made people...
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10 Denzel Washington Performances
If Tom Hanks is my generation’s Jimmy Stewart, then Denzel Washington is its Sidney Poitier. Washington’s career in some ways parallels Poitier’s, though even at his most noble, he had the luxury of adding more bite than Poitier could in his heyday. As a sexy ...
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The Woody Allen Retrospective: Part 2
Our Woody Allen retrospective continues today with our exhaustive examination of every film the neurotic genius directed from 1990-2012. (In case you missed it, part 1 was published yesterday.)
If these past 22 years have taught us anything, it's that the m...
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10 Films By Folks Born on Royal Baby Day
If you were anywhere near a television on July 22nd, you knew that the Royal Crumbsnatcher made his entrance in England. The blessed event (and the countdown to the blessed event, and the countdown to the countdown to the blessed event) received massive media ...
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10 Movies That Became TV Shows
When television became popular, the Cassandras of days gone by predicted it would ruin the movies. “Nobody will pay money,” they said, “when they can stay home and get entertained for free.” These predictors of cinematic doom forgot several things:
1. Peopl...
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