| 9 Great Animated Enviro-flicks: Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Cartoons |
| So you’ve fallen for WALL•E and want to keep the buzz going on into the millennium. Don’t worry. There are plenty of brilliant animation movies with an environmental message, and maybe even a few on this list that you haven’t seen before. |
| 6 Awesome Pre-Meltdown Films From Robert Downey, Jr. |
| We're not sure what it takes to go from a smack-using, gun-toting train wreck to the polished actor he is now. However, there's no denying the guy is, and always has been, an amazing actor. |
| The 9 Most Important Olympics Movies Of All Time |
| When the movies want great stories, they go to the Olympics. There's always an |
| 8 Timeless Classic Movies That Critics Are Afraid Of |
| There are some movies that are well liked, but no one gets offended if you have a few problems with them. Then there is another league of films, often called “classic” or “timeless,” that break beyond the mold of mere movie. |
| The 7 Coolest Superheroines: Which Would You Date? |
| Ever wanted a superheroine for a girlfriend? There are lots to choose from, but it’s not always easy to figure out who would be best. This list offers some insight into who the best superheroine girlfriends would be, in terms of looks, personality and powers. |
| CGI or Not CGI? |
| Was ET a real extraterrestrial, or was the little creature Computer Graphics Imagery (CGI)? What about Angelina Jolie's breasts? Steve Buscemi's face? Jack Nicholson's sneer? The answers will astound you. |
| You Used To Do What For Coke? 15 Unexpected Movie Cameos |
| We all love a good cameo. However, some are far more surprising than others. Here are the 15 times we were caught most off guard by a celebrity appearance. |
| Is the Truth Out There? Inquiring Minds Want to Know |
| Lily Parrot watches the entire first season of the X-Files in anticipation of the upcoming movie. |
| Technically Speaking ... I Don't Think So: Misuse of Technology in Movies |
| Family Entertainment Gone Wild: 10 Classic Summer Camp Movies |
| Whether you’re a summer camp survivor or you just like to watch it on the big screen, this is a list with more range and dexterity than Bill Murray in a three-legged race. |
| Luke, I am Your Father: 8 Memorable Movie Misquotes |
| What would we do without memorable movie quotes? Probably stick to our present policy of making them up. |
| Love: It Really, Really Hurts |
| Mike Myers' latest project, |
| Top 10 Movies About Old Guys Hooking Up With Young Women |
| Premise: movies love to pair wrinkled old goats with tender-skinned young beauties. |
| SATC, the Movie: Not Enough Sex, a Little Too Much City |
| By the time Sex and the City closed up shop in 2004, I was 30. People I knew were getting married, having children, and buying property. Everybody seemed to be growing up, and growing up meant having to deal with Real Questions about what we wanted in life, about who we were and who we were going to be. |
| Nine Movies to Watch in Honor of Independence Day |
| After the fireworks have faded away, curl up on the couch with these freedom-themed movies in honor of Independence Day. Watching movies is one of your Constitutional rights! Don't take it for granted. Exercise it. Use it or lose it! And don't forget the popcorn! |
| Ten LGBT Movies to Watch in Honor of Gay Day |
| In June the world commemorates the 1978 Stonewall Riots and celebrates the right to love whomever you choose with festivals, parades, pride marches and even film festivals. Here is a list of ten truly great movies that will honor the struggle, no matter what your sexual orientation. |
| Smack Talk and Repartee in Movies |
| Okay, you may not believe this, but back in the old days, movies featuring criminals relied on something called dialogue to make a point. CGI hadn't been invented, cars didn't go that fast, and a high body count was just plain tacky. Nowadays special effects do most of the talking -- but fear not -- witty repartee isn't completely dead. We had to dig a little, but we found some modern examples of movies where repartee, fast comebacks, petty arguments, and full on verbal smackdowns are still king. |
| Top Geeky Cult Classics |
| Geeky cult classics are beloved to the geek sub-culture. They are discussed, quoted, and reminisced over well after the movie is over. They can have done not well, or kinda well, but they cannot have done VERY well in the theater. They contain elements of genre in them (horror, scifi, fantasy) or they can be animated – but never a Disney flick. They can be amazing films, but often they are simply mediocre crap. These are the things defining a geek cult classic. |
| The Flixster guide to truly great actors in films that truly suck |
| It's when we see an actor with real talent, one we respect, (someone who's won academy awards, or say, been knighted as an actor, for the love of Pete!) show up in some complete used-diaper of a movie; that's when we get the feeling that maybe there really isn't a Santa Clause after all. Why? How? WTF? These are just some of the questions that occur to us while watching, for example, Tommy Lee Jones in Man of the House. |
| Top Geek Movies |
| Movies tend to fail in reflecting the real world when portraying of geeks – as they mostly play second fiddle to the hero in movies. In reality, nerds have long since moved on from being single, basement-dwelling, unwashed, socially-inept borderline autistics. Thanks to the Internet industry boom of the 90's, geeks are now married, large-house-owning, moderately-washed, socially-inept, rich borderline autistics. |
| Celebrity Sex Tape Showdown: What Have We Learned? |
| It's time to look back at the glorious era of celebrity dust-ups involving leaked sexcapade tapes or photos (please, let this mean it's over?). What sense can we make of these scummy, douchey, scuzzy train wrecks? |
| This! Is! Marketing! Five movies powered (for better or worse) by the Internet |
| In recent years, filmmakers big and small have been trying to take advantage of the inscrutable powers of the Internet to promote their movies. What they have mostly found is that the Net does no favors, and hype will only get you so far. In other words big buzz does not necessarily get you big dollars. |
| Science Fiction Film Babes Through Time |
| Sure there are a ton of lists of beautiful women out there, but as a site dedicated to movies, we really felt like we had to have our own. |
| 50 Thumbs Up: Bloggers and Online Film Critics |
| Flixster, champion of the underdog, now salutes a few of those intrepid movie lovers who have what it takes (internet access, a DVD player, and the occasional nine bucks) to keep reviewing. We’ve broken things down into a few categories, but other than that, the blogs and sites here are in no particular order. |
