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 [...]
The movie industry was in transition in 1980 – away from the auteur-driven seventies golden era and towards the age of the eighties blockbuster. Ringing out the old guard were duds like Cimino’s Heaven’s Gate, which became shorthand for out-of-control directorial hubris and Robert Altman’s Popeye which made a better soundtrack than a film. Representing [...]
The decade that’s ending has the ignominy of following the 1990′s, an era that will be looked back on as a creative peak rivaling the 1970′s for cinema. This is not to say the 00′s sucked as there were some great films and wonderful talents that emerged all over the world. Pixar proved that the [...]
Every year at this time, we here at Mallination try to bring you a new list of Thanksgiving Turkeys – films so bad they can only be compared to a dumb, flightless, tasty, “jive” bird. As an added bonus I’ve invited guest blogger Sean McDonald to contribute his own list of 5 to my list [...]
People Magazine just named their Sexiest Man Alive for 2009 (it’s Johnny Depp – so 2006!) which means it’s time in the name of all that’s symmetrical for us to announce our annual Sexiest Man Dead award for 2009. You can click here to see our previous winners. It was a tough year with a [...]
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