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The 31 Best New Year’s Eve Movies for Ringing in 2025 | Vanity Fair
What are you doing New Year’s Eve? Watching these festive films, from ‘When Harry Met Sally’ to ‘Phantom Thread.’ Source: The 31 Best New Year’s Eve Movies for Ringing in 2025 | Vanity Fair
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65 Years Ago, an Iconic Sci-Fi Monster Movie Imitated a Bizarre Real-Life Species | Inverse
Recent evidence showing that slime mold can react to its environment and even find the best ways toward food. by Elana Spivack, Sep. 1, 2023 Sixty-five years ago this month, an iconic horror movie made a star out of Steve McQueen and showed disappointingly little of its titular character. That movie, The Blob, involves a…
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#WGAStrong: Why Readers Should Care About the Writers Strike
By Susie Dumond Aug 8, 2023 On Thursday, short of a surprising announcement, the Writers Guild of America’s strike will reach its 100th day. That’s over three months that screenwriters have spent picketing the major studios for fair pay, improved working conditions, regulations on use of artificial intelligence (AI), and more. The writer’s strike, combined…
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How John Wick 4 Writer Broke in With His Extreme Spec Script | Final Draft
By Final Draft Blog, March 16, 2023 John Wick is one of the most visually spectacular and emotionally unrelenting action franchises around. Chapter 4 is about to hit theaters – part Western, part Kung Fu film, part Samurai story and part redemption tale, this genre mash up is thrilling, sexy, violent and – oh yeah,…
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The Consummate Professional: Lance Reddick (1962-2023) | Tributes | Roger Ebert
By Brian Tallerico March 20, 2023 It’s clichéd to say this about someone after they’re gone, but a show or movie changed when Lance Reddick showed up. He brought a quiet intensity and refined gravity to everything he did. So when his face appeared on screen, everything was somehow instantly elevated. Think about when he…
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The Art of the Murder Mystery: The 10 Best Whodunits, Ranked | MOVIEWEB
By Brian Hawkins, Published 5 days ago Murder, mystery, intrigue, and the machinations of the macbre hold a lot of what movie-goers find most entertaining and thrilling about storytelling. Found within the idea of not-knowing, the classic “Whodunit?” offers something in the foundation of its conception that other genres do not: An active role for…
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How “It’s a Wonderful Life” Almost Never Happened | Library of Congress Blog | Library of Congress
By Neely Tucker, December 21, 2022 Elizabeth Brown is a reference librarian in the Researcher and Reference Services Division. This article appears in the Library of Congress Magzine, Nov.-Dec. 2 Perhaps the most beloved Christmas film of all time got its start during a morning shave. Philip Van Doren Stern, while getting ready for work…
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The Best Christmas Movies in 2022 and Where to Watch Them – TV Guide
Where to stream 8-Bit Christmas, A Christmas Carol, and more By Allison Picurro, Nov. 24, 2022 at 9:00 a.m. PT Remember the rule about no Christmas music until after Thanksgiving? Yeah, that rule is a thing of the past. “Jingle Bell Rock” is all over your local Starbucks, so you may as well watch a…
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Why You Should Turn Subtitles On For Absolutely Everything – CNET
I use subtitles all the time. No matter what. By Mark Serrels, Sept. 19, 2022 5:10 p.m. PT “Once you overcome the one-inch-tall barrier of subtitles, you will be introduced to so many more amazing films.” That’s Academy Award winner Bong Joon-ho, quoted from a Golden Globes acceptance speech all the way back in January 2020.…
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The Backstory to American Graffiti
https://richardwalter.substack.com/p/the-backstory-to-american-graffiti Aug 24 • 12 Minutes The Backstory to American Graffiti Lesson: Nobody knows anything Source: The Backstory to American Graffiti
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Prelinger Archives : Free Movies : Free Download, Borrow and Streaming : Internet Archive
By Internet Archive, 2022 View thousands of films from the Prelinger Archives! Prelinger Archives was founded in 1983 by Rick Prelinger in New York City. Over the next twenty years, it grew into a collection of over 60,000 “ephemeral” (advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur) films. In 2002, the film collection was acquired by the Library…
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Asking Your Opinion: National Film Registry | Now See Hear!
August 3, 2022 by Stacie Seifrit-Griffin I am happy to say that I work with some of the most fascinating, brilliant and passionate people that I’ve ever known. The halls here at the Library of Congress National Audio-Video Conservation Center are abuzz every day with discussions about movies, directors, cinematography, casting decisions, and opinions about…
