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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 [...]

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 [...]

The movie to end all movies (and the world), 2012, comes out today, and we have to admit that there’s something to the succinct title that makes it rather catchy and epic-sounding. Of course, 2012 is hardly the first such year-titled movie.
It follows a long lineage of such films, including the subcategories of future year [...]

We love a science fiction film that plunges us into a completely different setting, where we get to rediscover everything from the language to the fashions to the laws of physics. Even better, we love a sci-fi movie that, within its imaginative new universe, sprouts a crazy dream sequence where the laws and rules are [...]

Underneath its cheap production values, terrible acting and predictable plots, exploitation cinema is among the most important art forms to emerge in the 20th century, with plenty of cathartic, utopian solutions to real world problems that may never go away. You’ll notice as much perusing Complex’s outstanding listicle of The 50 Best Blaxploitation Movies of [...]

We can’t decide if the fact that co-stars in a summer blockbuster don’t even need to meet to film their scenes together nowadays is awesome of depressing. Despite your stance on how impoverished acting has become in the current era of spectacular visual effects, you’ve got to admit that our movies look more stunningly beautiful [...]

It’s funny to remember that 50 years ago, mainstream American films couldn’t show married couples sharing a bed, or that at the time, a couple kissing in any pose not completely upright was basically screenwriter code for sex. We’ve come a long way, haven’t we? Future of Classic’s Tim Dirk suggests as much, with his [...]