The films released in 2007 that most blew me away:

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - hands down the best

Grindhouse - most unique and satisfying

Beowulf - killer 3D and a definite mood

28 Weeks Later - the most intense and nonstop horror; much better than the first one

3:10 to Yuma - a great remake; Crowe and Bale rule this film

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Newsweek has an awesome article up right now about the state of movies versus television. The title is "Why TV is Better Than the Movies", and it explores how Hollywood has continued to stick to its guns about theatrical releasing months before DVD release, and keep up with the big awards galas and hoopla, merely as a prestige factor that its ( Read more... )

So in celebration of the upcoming Grindhouse (2007), Robert Rodriguez and the SXSW Film Festival is having a contest. Just as Eli Roth and Rob Zombie have created fake drive-in exploitation trailers that divide Quentin Tarantino's and Robert Rodriguez's features that comprise Grindhouse, this contest allows the participants to create their own ( Read more... )

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Andrew Repasky McElhinney: I think you can (cyclically) sum up American cinema with four movies - The Birth of a Nation, Citizen Kane, The Chelsea Girls and Star Wars -- so all films made after 1977 owe debts (both good and bad) to Griffith, Welles, Warhol and Lucas ( Read more... )

One of the best, most-encompassing, most satisfying movie quizzes ever! Taken from this blog

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Back in February I read an Indieflix blog post about a filmmaker they rejected on the basis of content. It refused to say who the filmmaker is or the title of the film in question, but talked about how well-made it was, and mentioned it had won several awards ( Read more... )