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Movies to See Before You Die: Spaceballs
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Movies To See Before You Die: Kazaam
A stunning piece of work and one of the most important films ever made. Kazaam is complex, unforgettable and cunningly original, a rare movie that has fun while touching at the very core of humanity....
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Movies to See Before You Die: Real Genius
Confession: I’ve never seen Animal House all the way through. On the occasions that I do watch it, I catch a small portion of it on cable or something, and I’m always only halfway paying attention to...
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Movies to See Before You Die: “Goldfinger”
The positively shocking teaser; the bold vocal performance by Shirley Bassey; the elaborate gadgets; “the most famous car in the world”, the Aston Martin DB5; the Bond Girl with the risque name; the...
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Movies to See Before You Die: “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”
Few Hollywood stars burned with a brighter intensity than Marilyn Monroe, one of a handful of Hollywood icons whose legend endures largely due an enduring interest in her style, her dramatic personal...
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Movies to See Before You Die: “Murder on the Orient Express”
There’s a principle in entertainment called “the 40-year rule,” championed by writer Adam Gopnik, which posits that people in every era are fascinated by the culture of the era that came 40 years...
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Movies To Watch With Your Dad Before You Die: Enter the Dragon
Bruce Lee. What else is there to say, really? A man ahead of his time. My argument is that Bruce Lee, and his seminal film Enter the Dragon, pretty much invented the Hollywood martial arts flick, as it...
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Movies To See Before You Die: “Hausu”
Roger Ebert was once asked to name a movie totally free of clichés. He named My Dinner With Andre, an entry in his “Great Movies” list. That’s a good question and a good answer, but maybe it was too...
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Movies to See Before You Die: “Dracula”&“Drácula”
Flickchart was created to address the timeless conversational exercise of comparing two films head to head. One of the most frequent comparisons moviegoers have made throughout the last century is...
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Movies To See Before You Die: “Frankenstein”
The monster is lifted before it is given life. Perhaps the most immediate surprise with James Whale’s adaptation of Frankenstein is its immediate use of a framing device; rather than the novel’s...
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Movies to See Before You Die: Spaceballs
This is a touchstone from my own childhood. I watched this VHS quite a bit – I think at a certain point, I must’ve confused Spaceballs and Star Wars with one another, thinking one was a sequel of the...
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Movies To See Before You Die: Kazaam
A stunning piece of work and one of the most important films ever made. Kazaam is complex, unforgettable and cunningly original, a rare movie that has fun while touching at the very core of humanity....
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Movies to See Before You Die: Real Genius
Confession: I’ve never seen Animal House all the way through. On the occasions that I do watch it, I catch a small portion of it on cable or something, and I’m always only halfway paying attention to...
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Movies to See Before You Die: “Goldfinger”
The positively shocking teaser; the bold vocal performance by Shirley Bassey; the elaborate gadgets; “the most famous car in the world”, the Aston Martin DB5; the Bond Girl with the risque name; the...
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Movies to See Before You Die: “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”
Few Hollywood stars burned with a brighter intensity than Marilyn Monroe, one of a handful of Hollywood icons whose legend endures largely due an enduring interest in her style, her dramatic personal...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Movies to See Before You Die: “Murder on the Orient Express”
There’s a principle in entertainment called “the 40-year rule,” championed by writer Adam Gopnik, which posits that people in every era are fascinated by the culture of the era that came 40 years...
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Movies To Watch With Your Dad Before You Die: Enter the Dragon
Bruce Lee. What else is there to say, really? A man ahead of his time. My argument is that Bruce Lee, and his seminal film Enter the Dragon, pretty much invented the Hollywood martial arts flick, as it...
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Movies To See Before You Die: “Hausu”
Roger Ebert was once asked to name a movie totally free of clichés. He named My Dinner With Andre, an entry in his “Great Movies” list. That’s a good question and a good answer, but maybe it was too...
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Movies to See Before You Die: “Dracula”&“Drácula”
Flickchart was created to address the timeless conversational exercise of comparing two films head to head. One of the most frequent comparisons moviegoers have made throughout the last century is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Movies To See Before You Die: “Frankenstein”
The monster is lifted before it is given life. Perhaps the most immediate surprise with James Whale’s adaptation of Frankenstein is its immediate use of a framing device; rather than the novel’s...
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