Movie magic is often synonymous with movie deception, especially where filming locations and story settings are concerned. Like how Se7en is supposed to be set in New York and was actually filmed in L.A. with lots of fake rain–which, not surprisingly, works very well–but when they drive thirty minutes out of town for the finale [...]

Today is the International Day Against Police Brutality (except, notably, in the United States, where National Anti-Police Brutality Day on October 22 takes precedence) and though, happily, we have never been victims of police brutality, we know of a number of fictional characters who have been on the giving and receiving ends of such abuses [...]

As far as sports-y metaphors for American society go, none is probably quite so eloquent and insightful as football, with its strictly divided class system, its rigid hierarchy of knowledge with a few powerful people of privilege bossing the workers around and, more recently, its complete caving in to the needs of television broadcasters. That [...]

We were in a gang fight once. Well, we saw one. From really far away. It may have been a rugby team practice… At any rate, we much prefer seeing gang fights in movies than in real life, where they tend to be less well coordinated and more confusing. Indeed, one of AMC Movie Blog’s [...]

We are rather proud to say that we have seen well over half of the 53 films that Alfred Hitchcock directed–some of the early silent pictures are hard to sit through–and about 30 episodes of his TV show Alfred Hitchcock Presents, so we can tell you with some sort of authority that the 30 Alfred [...]

Today is Multiple Personalities Day, which, it seems to us, should really be celebrated over the course of multiple days, but nobody asked us. For now, the best we can do is to take this opportunity to look at the various ways that people (mostly fictional) with multiple personalities have affected our lives. Here, then, [...]

We are all for advances in robotics, all for slowly but surely giving all human jobs to purpose-built cybernetic beings with just enough of our circuitry missing that they will not try to wrest control of the world from us. But those things are so complex; at times like these, when we need stuff to [...]

Today is Texas Independence Day, which commemorates the March 2, 1836 signing of the Texas Declaration of independence, officially turning Mexican Texas into the Republic of Texas. Though that national experiment lasted only ten years, Texas Independence Day remains an official holiday in the state of Texas, which is pretty much what you’d expect of [...]

We can always use a little more escapism in our day; not too much, just a short journey to the outer reaches of the human consciousness and imagination. More often than not, this trip is enabled by drugs incredible and transporting short films. Not incidentally, then, you’ll notice that most of these 10 Surreal Animated [...]

If it were up to us (which, obviously, it should be) there would be an Oscar handed out every year for best onscreen food. Seriously, how many amazing meals have we seen stars eat year in and year out? The set dressers, prop designers, artistic directors and chefs who are in charge of these things [...]