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Film: The 25 Best Movies of 1971

The 1970s have come to be seen as one of the great eras for film (even if that view was not universally embraced at the time.) !971 embodies the spirit of experimentation, the mixing of high and low filmmaking, and the renegade spirit that the best of the decade brought to bear. Here are the [...]

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The Annual Thanksgiving Turkeys Bad Film List – 2010 Edition

It’s hard to believe but this is the fourth year we are dredging up the worst cinema has to offer for you, the reader. Keep in mind the list is never limited to films released over the past year – ANY film can be a turkey and we haven’t run short yet. This year we [...]

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Flashback: The 26 Best Movies of 1975

1975 was smack in the middle of one of the best decades for film ever and this list certainly proves it out – Beatty, Nicholson, Hackman, Spielberg, Lumet, Pacino, all at or near peaks. Enjoy the extravaganza of some of my favorites films from that year and feel free to disagree in the comments!

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Television: TV’s Cheesiest Intros of the 80s

Ah, the 80s.  If you wanted original programming you had your three networks (until Fox came along at the end of the decade and HBO jumped into original shows around the same time) plus PBS. Nowadays you’d have to go to the likes of the Sci-Fi Channel… oh excuse me, SyFy to see the level [...]

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Flashback! The Best Movies of 1990

Was 1990 really the 90s, or was it just the hangover from the 80s? While you ponder that, consider that Nirvana and Tarantino were still a year away and a little show called Seinfeld was confusing a tiny audience before supplanting Cheers as NBC’s big sitcom property. There was also the little matter of Gulf [...]

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