Netflix started producing original films back in 2015 with the release of Cary Fukunaga’s “Beasts of No Nation,” which opened in select movie theaters and hit the streaming platform on October 16th.
Read moreThe 10 Best Pixar Movies
Pixar hasn’t just reinvented animation for the 21st century, they’ve expanded it forward to a space and time where the adult/child line is blurred and the creativity on display is astonishingly rendered. You forget you’re watching a film primarily aimed at kids. You feel like a child again, full of innocence, full of joy, discovering a new world that previously seemed so out of reach. Over the past 25 years, Pixar has given us so much more than 15 timeless movies; they’ve brought us the ability to succumb to a universe full of magic and stories that hit the truest notes possible. It’s hard to imagine a cinematic landscape without Pixar, and the significance they represent cannot be underestimated. Their effect on regular, live-action movies is self-evident. They’ve pushed boundaries and forced other filmmakers to think outside the box. Here’s to another 25 great years.
Read more15 Directors Who Actually Trashed Their Own Movies
When a film gets shot it results in an environment that is creatively pumped by an assortment of collaborators, most important of all might be the director. By the time a film makes the long journey from pre-production to theaters, it’s the director’s vision that is most noticed on-screen, his instinct to mold every collaborator’s inclusion into a whole. Of course, sometimes when a film goes bad shots are fired and bad blood emerges, but the main fall guy always ends up being the director. Although most end up staying quiet and just letting time do the healing, others can’t help but shout out their discontent. Here are 15 famous directors who hate their own movies and made sure to let us know.
Read moreThe 10 Most Shocking Movies of All-Time
Some movies push the envelope, while other movies tear up the envelope, put it through a shredder, and do so without worrying about how they will be perceived by the mainstream.
Read moreThe 20 Most Anticipated Netflix Original Movies of 2021
As the COVID-19 pandemic surges all across the country, Netflix is destined to become a nirvana for cinephiles this coming year. Want proof? The streaming giant just announced its 2021 lineup, accompanied by a spiffy new trailer, and the goal is a rather ambitious one this year for them: make sure to deliver new movies every week, from January to December.
Read moreThe 50 Best Netflix Original Movies
Since moving from a DVD service to a streamer in 2007, Netflix has released a countless number of original movies, from Oscar nominees and popcorn action flicks, to some that even the streaming giant would like to forget (“6 Underground”). We’ve managed to whittle down their huge back catalogue to a round of 25, so let’s go…
Read moreThe 15 Best Movies of 2020
Through the context of a movie year that had most of its post-March theatrical releases canceled, the number of great movies that actually came out this year was surprisingly plentiful. Have we finally reached the point when, even if almost an entire year of theatrical moviegoing gets thrown out of the window, we could still find a bountiful amount of quality films via streaming platforms? I believe we’ve reached that point.
Read moreWarner Bros. Set to Premiere These 20 Movies on HBO Max Next Year
Warner Bros. announced earlier today that its entire 2021 film slate will open via a “distribution model in which Warner Bros. will continue to exhibit the films theatrically worldwide, while adding an exclusive one month access period on the HBO Max streaming platform in the U.S. concurrent with the film’s domestic release.”
Read moreThe 10 Best Comedies of the 2010s
Starting in 2003, with the release of “Old School” then “Anchorman,” a comedy renaissance started with the boom of the Will Ferrell/Judd Apatow/Seth Rogen era (“The 40 Year Old Virgin,” “Superbad,” “Step Brothers” and “Walk Hard.”) Then, the immense success of 2009’s “The Hangover” and 2011’s “Bridesmaids,” which leads us to where we are now, which, while despite a few great chucklers having been released, most of the recent comedy releases this past decade have been safe “star-based” movies (think Kevin Hart or Melissa McCarthy).
Read moreThe 14 Most Anticipated Netflix Original Movies Coming in 2020
With the return to cinemas seemingly a long way off for most, and with more and more studios pushing back their tentpole movies every day, we thought it would be poignant to look at some of the extremely interesting movies still to hit streaming giant Netflix in 2020, which will become one of the only sources of new films for what appears to be the foreseeable future.
Read moreThe Best Actions Movies of the 2010s
Here are ten movies — all released within the last 10 years — that tried to change the game, succeeded and made it a lovely day for blockbusters.
Read moreThe 10 Best Movies of 2019
Because, like, why not?
Read moreThe 20 Most Underrated American Movies of the 2010s
As we continue to look back at the last 10 years of movies, it’s time to point out the ones that fell between the cracks. It wasn’t easy narrowing down our list of under-seen gems to just 20, but we are fairly confident about the ones we’ve chosen. The selection process stemmed from personal taste, word-of-mouth, lack of awards contention and the impact I believe these movies will have in the years to come. They may be going unnoticed as we speak, but there’s no reason why their greatness will be avoided in the years to come, especially as time slowly but surely builds a case for them.
Read moreThe 10 Longest Hollywood Movies Ever Made
They may be great, but some still had us checking our watches and rushing to the washroom before the sweet bliss of their end credits. For this list of the longest Hollywood movies ever made, I have narrowed my picks to only mainstream Hollywood movies that must have been over 200 minutes long when shown originally in theaters. We’re also excluding experimental films, director’s cuts and extended versions.
The 10 Best Space Movies: From ‘2001: A Space Odyssey' to ‘Gravity'
Space movies are a dime a dozen but only a handful have actually captured the zeitgeist and become cinematic landmarks. What are some of the essential films set amongst the stars?
Read moreTom Cruise's 10 Best Performances
Tom Cruise has been one of Hollywood’s biggest stars ever since he slid onto the screen to the sound of Bob Seger’s Old time rock and roll in 1983’s ‘Risky Business’. Jumping between serious roles and as Hollywood’s go to action man, Cruise has built a career around authenticity, both in performance and in the stunts he performs. Still one of Hollywood’s most bankable stars, but what have been his career highlights?
Read moreThe 2010s Only Had Two Hollywood Movies Go Over 3 Hours in Length; In Comparison, the 1990s Had 15
“Avengers: Endgame” is the only American studio movie that hit the 3 hour mark this decade. That’s right, the American epic is all but extinct. We know the “epic” was all the rage in 20th century Hollywood, with grand sweeping statements invading almost every genre including the musical, but to have just one 3 hour movie this decade feels depressing.
Read moreTop 10 Best Plot Twists in Modern Cinema History
It isn’t my fault that this list, and video, which I scripted and B-rolled for WatchMojo back in 2014 mostly contains American movies. Hollywood has always had a knack to try to one-up its audience with gimmickry. Whereas European and Asian filmmakers are not interested as much, because, truth be told, twists are indeed gimmicks, but, sometimes, they can work marvelously well.
Read moreAMC Movie theatres to host 59 hour marathon of all 22 Marvel movies.
Ah yes, good old MCU marathons before an ‘Avengers’ movie is released. It’s become a tradition, the only problem now with such an event is that the films have piled up and the marathon now has to run for nearly three days, given that we have 22 movies in the MCU.
Read moreThe Russos Say They Are Probably Done With The MCU After ‘Avengers' Films
If it weren't for the Russos, I just don't think Captain America would be as popular a character in the MCU. I mean, after all, it looked like Marvel and Disney seemed to want to bank on Robert Downey Jr.s Iron Man as the driving force of the Avengers.
However, after the slight but amusing "Captain America: The First Avenger" directed by "Jumanji" helmer Joe Johnston, Marvel Head Kevin Feige quickly switched directions for Cap and hired Joe and Anthony Russo to helm "The Winter Soldier." That film was a game-changer for the genre, and the closest to near cinematic heaven a superhero has come since Nolan's "Dark Knight" trilogy. The follow-up "Civil War," a film that, by all accounts, was an Avengers affair, but much better, sealed the deal that the Russos were the go-to guys for Feige. No surprise then that he hired them to direct the last two movies of the MCU, this week's released "Infinity War" and next year's as of yet untitled sequel.
Going back to the transition between "The First Avenger" and "The Winter Soldier." What a drastic change that was for Marvel. They were still trying to find their own identity, relying on what Favreau did with "Iron Man" and, by all accounts, "The First Avenger" is an ok film, but, when viewed again today, it feels much more like a DCEU film than any Marvel film we've come to expect the last 7 years or so.
"The Winter Soldier" really changed the game; It changed the style, the tone, the seriousness, hell, the Russos even decided to bring a cinematic feel to "The Winter Soldier" by heavily borrowing from the 1970's political thriller and not even being subtle about their affection for it by hiring Robert Redford who starred in one of the very best of that genre in the 1970s: "The Three Days of the Condor."
And so The Russos, who only directed two other films before being hired for "The Winter Soldier," the sligth but amusing "Welcome to Collinwood," and the God awful "You, Me and Dupree," have found a niche for the aciton-thriller and have become the two hottest filmmakers in American studio filmmaking. With their MCU almost done, I was wondering, what's next for them?
According to an interview with Empire, the brothers are adamant at their next project not being a Marvel movie.
“The next film that we will direct will most likely be for our company, and most likely be a tentpole,” the Russos said. “[Christopher] Markus and [Stephen] McFeely have come on board in a very unique capacity, as what we’re calling Co-Presidents of Story. We’ve been developing inside the studio system for many years, inside networks, and we know what works about them and what doesn’t work about them.”
There it is, folks. Russos not returning to the MCU, for now.