Some of the most successful horror movies ever made – especially the more recent torture-porn variety – follow a specific formula: a group of people (often high school kids) go to a remote location and are terrorised by some mysterious psychopath who proceeds to kill them all.
If the second series of cult sci-fi show Fringe was a year for shedding comparisons to The X Files and Lost, then it could be argued that the third series is the point at which the show began to do things that had never been done before.
Filmy patřà lidu (Films Belong to the People) is the title of a series of Socialist Realist pictures that have been released on DVD in the Czech Republic in recent months. These propaganda-filled films are from the 1950s, the harshest decade of the communist era, notorious for its brutal repression, show trials and forced labour camps.
It’s Thanksgiving this week, a time to reflect on the people and things for which we’re grateful. Since I love movies, I thought it would be a good time to choose five for which I’m thankful. These are the cinematic equivalent of comfort food, ones I can watch over and over again, and always rely on to make me laugh, lift me up or provide an escape.
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Usher’s stagecraft is too slick for his own good on this Blu-ray release.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – French film pioneer Georges Melies directed over 500 movies at the turn of the 20th century, but few of them survived.