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16 Jul

Netflix: Top Ten Most Popular Original Movies Revealed

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Netflix has confirmed its ten most popular original films for the very first time. The streaming service has only quite recently started to give prying eyes a bigger peek behind the curtain by setting up a trending Top Ten on the platform and giving subscribers an idea of which projects have been hit or miss as they’re released, but this week’s unveiling of its original hits to date (via Bloomberg) reveals that some of its more expensive feature films seem to have been worth the risk. Below, we’ve got a look at Netflix’s official Top Ten Most Popular Original Movies…
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13 Jul

Ghost of Tsushima: Essential Kurosawa Samurai Movies to Watch Before the Game

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Ghost of Tsushima‘s developers at Sucker Punch have been very explicit about the ways the samurai films of legendary Japanese director Akira Kurosawa have influenced their game. The PS4 exclusive even features a “Kurosawa Mode” that allows you to apply a stylish black-and-white filter to the experience, recreating the somber mood and film grain of the director’s work. Anyone who tells a modern samurai story owes some kind of debt to Kurosawa. He may not have been the first director to tell a samurai story via film and his legacy as one of the greatest directors of all-time may have…
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01 Jul

DC on HBO Max: All The DC Movies Coming in July

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There’s a TON of DC movies coming to HBO Max in July, but they aren’t necessarily the ones you expect. While the service is still dealing with a number of its most high profile titles still cycling through previously agreed on streaming deals at competitors, they’re bringing in a lot of their lesser known titles to fill in the blanks. One thing they’re doing for the moment is extending the runs of DCEU “favorites” like Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Justice League, and Suicide Squad through December. But don’t sleep on the dozens of others on the way. For…
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01 Jul

X-Men and Fantastic Four Movies Coming to Disney+ This Summer

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Well, it’s finally happening: there will be X-Men and Fantastic Four movies on Disney+. No, not new Marvel Studios productions, sadly (although if we don’t get this pandemic under control soon it might very well be the only way we’ll be experiencing movies for a while), but a number of the 20th Century Fox…ahem…we mean 20th Century Studios…versions of the merry mutants and the first family of Marvel. Disney+ will become the streaming home of the first X-Men movie (which isn’t as good as you remember), X-Men: Days of Future Past (which might be better than you remember), the forgettable…
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29 Jun

Anthony Mackie Pushes for More Diversity on Marvel Movies

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Anthony Mackie will soon reprise his longtime big screen role as the co-star of Disney+ team-up series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. However, he thinks that the expanding and evolving Marvel Cinematic Universe, in which the show exists, lacks diversity… behind the cameras, anyway. In an “Actors on Actors” Variety interview opposite Daveed Diggs, star of TNT series Snowpiercer, Mackie discusses the responsibilities of representation tasked with black actors when starring on platforms as prominent as theirs. Yet, in a musing that may be seen as critical of his Marvel Studios home, Mackie also believes that the company’s endeavor…
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26 Jun

Five Underrated Joel Schumacher Movies You Need to See

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To a certain generation of moviegoers, Joel Schumacher, who passed away this week, will be forever remembered as the man that introduced the world to Bat-nipples.    But that assessment belies the legacy of a director who, for all his faults, wasn’t afraid to take risks and rarely regretted anything he brought to the big screen.   The Batman & Robin filmmaker even remained philosophical on the subject of those distractingly erect rubber appendages.  “Maybe I was just naive but I’m still glad we did it,” he later reflected.    Indeed, Schumacher once declared: “I’m not embarrassed about anything I’ve done.”   And, Arnold…
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26 Jun

How The Fall of the House of Usher Changed Horror Movies

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It was 60 years ago this month that American International Pictures (AIP) released The Fall of the House of Usher (also known as just House of Usher), a film based on the classic 1839 short story by Edgar Allan Poe, produced and directed by a low-budget B-movie specialist named Roger Corman. Corman recruited horror and sci-fi writer Richard Matheson (I Am Legend) to adapt the Poe tale, while also hiring Vincent Price — already established as a horror star in films like The Fly and House on Haunted Hill — for the lead role (just one of four in the…
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22 Jun

J.K. Simmons Promises More J. Jonah Jameson in Spider-Man and MCU Movies

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Arguably more than any actor who’s donned a pair of superhero tights, J.K. Simmons has provided the most irreplaceable performance in a comic book movie. Even Marvel Studios—which made no qualms about rebooting Spider-Man for the second time in less than five years—seemed to concede this point when they cast J.K. Simmons as J. Jonah Jameson in Spider-Man: Far From Home. Appearing balder than how he looked in the Sam Raimi directed Spider-Man movies from the 2000s, but still with the same miniature mustache, Simmons enjoyed the best end credits teaser since Samuel L. Jackson showed up sporting an eyepatch…
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12 Jun

Best International Horror Movies: A Beginner’s Guide

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This article is presented by NordVPN.  Fear is the universal language. Terror is, as we have sadly seen so often, a global phenomenon. And monsters inhabit every crevice of this small world, from the deepest recesses of the South Pacific to the most remote peaks of the North Pole. So it should hardly be a surprise that horror films are and have been a component of cinema in just about every country that embraced the art form. Along with love, fear is the most profound human emotion, and any art — especially filmmaking — is the way in which we…
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05 Jun

Best Classic Movies on HBO Max

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HBO Max is here, and for those who are eager to revisit Friends for the umpteenth time or wait patiently for “the Snyder Cut” of Justice League to actually be willed into existence, that’s good news. Yet for movie fans of a certain type, the most exciting thing about the new streaming service is its access to what is arguably the richest collection of Hollywood classics in the world. Not since the unnecessary demise FilmStruck has there been a streaming service with this level of classic cinema density. With access to the Warner Bros. vault of Golden Age Hollywood, as…
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04 Jun

The Best Horror Movies to Watch on Shudder

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It’s safe to say that the world is a bit weird right now. Much to some people’s surprise, horror movies can often be a way for fans to make sense of things and confront their fears in a safe space. Streaming service Shudder offers a large array of horror movies, TV shows, and even podcasts covering the full spectrum of the macabre. But how do you know where to start? We’ve put together a guide to some of the best films the service has to offer. The Shudder catalogue is always growing and changing so we’ll keep this updated –…
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27 May

Everything on HBO Max: A Guide to the Movies and TV Shows of WarnerMedia’s Streaming Service

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The goal of any new streaming service worth its salt is consolidation. We’ve got a lot of major entertainment conglomerates now and each one of them needs a streaming home to consolidate its content on. With that in mind, WarnerMedia’s HBO Max is undoubtedly the biggest streaming release since Disney+ last year.  When AT&T acquired Time Warner and all its holdings in 2016, the newly-branded WarnerMedia subsidiary needed a place to house thousands of Warner movies, and other series, films, and documentaries from Warner-branded studios like CNN, TNT, TBS, The CW, Adult Swim, and much more. Enter HBO Max. Though…
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23 May

Justice League: The Snyder Cut and 10 Movies That Did It First

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The pop culture shattering confirmation that the “Snyder Cut” of Justice League has been willed into existence by a small cadre of devoted DC fans turned geek media upside down this week. It also raises a number of interesting, if troublesome, questions. While the theatrical version of Justice League that exists now is hardly anyone’s idea of a singular artistic vision–it was grafted together from footage separately directed by Zack Snyder and Joss Whedon–it still represents the best efforts of the filmmakers at the time. If that final product is not satisfactory to fans, do those fans get to dictate…
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22 May

The Best Summer Movies of All Time

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Ah. Hear that? Probably not, but what should be sounding in the distance is an assortment of pigs and/or cows grilling; the laughter of children running through fields of green; and some radio playing infectious pop music faintly in the distance. After all, it’s Memorial Day weekend. For most Americans that means it’s time to celebrate the longest days of the year with trips to the beach, mountains, or a backyard barbecue pit. This year, however, it means Zooming friends and family from your living room couch and firing up your streaming service of choice. Still, even if movie season…
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20 Apr

Upcoming Stephen King Movies and TV Shows in Development

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It’s no accident that Stephen King is one of the most heavily-adapted writers in horror movie history. From horror gross-outs and intense psychological thrillers to far-out sci-fi romps and ambitious horror epics like It Chapter One and Chapter Two, there’s a King movie or TV show for everyone. It certainly helps that King is also one of the most prolific and successful writers working today. Since 1974, with the publication of Carrie, his debut novel about a troubled girl with telekinetic powers, King has been raising the bar of weird fiction. He certainly has some of the best human villains and…
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17 Apr

Best Family Movies on HBO to Watch With Kids

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The company image of HBO may not instantly bring to mind family films, but the streaming service has a really fun selection of movies to enjoy at home with your kids. While you’re spending more time in the house (stay home, stay safe!), you can check out these family-friendly features to stream on HBO. Alpha and Omega (2010) This animated tale of star-crossed lovers features two wolves taken from their national park by rangers to help repopulate another site. Alpha-daughter Kate is determined to get back home, where she’s supposed to marry another alpha; Humphrey, an omega wolf, puts aside…
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15 Apr

Star Trek Streaming Guide: Where to Watch All the TV Shows and Movies

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Launched on September 8, 1966 — nearly 54 years ago — the NBC-TV series Star Trek was the beginning of a new age of science fiction on television and, eventually, the big screen. The first show to echo the sophistication and vision of sci-fi literature, Star Trek was only a cult hit at the time of its initial run but refused to die even after its cancellation, with the original 79 episodes running for years in syndication. More than five decades later, Star Trek encompasses eight TV series (a total of 764 episodes and counting) and 13 films, plus countless…
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11 Apr

Best Family Movies on Amazon Prime

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Amazon has thrown families a huge benefit during the coronavirus pandemic by making a lot of their children’s content (Amazon Originals and licensed shows) available for free, even for families that don’t have a Prime membership. Most of what’s there is series programming, which Amazon excels at offering. For families with Amazon Prime, however, there are definitely some family friendly movies to watch, although those are in shorter supply than the more extensive episodic programs. Many of the films that are available are classics parents will remember from their own childhoods, so if you’re trying to figure out what to…
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07 Apr

Pixar Movies and Shows on Disney Plus Streaming Guide

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To infinity and beyond. That’s of course Buzz Lightyear’s favorite turn of phrase, but it might as well describe the amount of viewing options you’ll have now that Disney+ is live. With almost every classic animated movie on the service, as well as most of Disney’s live-action library, there is a cornucopia of options for the Disney faithful. But what might make a certain subsect of the congregation especially happy is nearly full access to Pixar Animation Studios’ catalogue.  Stream your Pixar favorites with a FREE TRIAL of Disney+, on us, right here! The animation house responsible for changing the very…
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07 Apr

James Bond Movies Streaming Guide: Where to Watch 007 Online

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In times of great stress it’s natural for us to all find some sort of escapism – and movies are the perfect way to forget about your problems (or the world’s) for a couple of hours. Personally, we’ve found the James Bond franchise to be among the best forms of such entertainment: the movies are pure adventure and fantasy, they have a comforting template that they mostly follow, and you can dive into the series — or even an individual film — without having to catch up on anything that came before. That’s why it’s so heartening to learn that…
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