Tag: Films

Favorite vs. Best

What is the best film of all time?

Most film scholars (and wanna-be film scholars) proclaim that it’s Citizen Kane, Orson Welles’s 1941 masterpiece that inarguably changed filmmaking forever. Casablanca, Lawrence of Arabia, The Godfather, and Gone with the Wind are often in the conversation as well.

Excluding The Godfather, how many times have you heard someone mention one of those films as their absolute favorite? How many are populating a casual filmgoer’s top five? How many Lawrence of Arabia conversations have you experienced in your life?

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#RestoreTheSnyderVerse

Zack Snyder’s Justice League is an instant classic. It improbably exceeded the hype and continued to advance a beautiful, operatic, tragic epic story.

We need the sequels to see how it all ends.

Tags Batman v Superman, Classic, DC, DCEU, Films, Justice League, Movies, Pop Culture, Superman, Zack Snyder

Films Pop Culture What If

What If: Jim Carrey as Batman

Post author By Christopher Pierznik
Post date October 19, 2020
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Riddle me this…

In the mid-90s, Jim Carrey was in the midst of an epic run of box office hits. From 1994 – 1998, he starred (or co-starred) in eight films, all of which grossed at least $100 million dollars globally, with three of them doubling that figure and three more tripling it.

Halfway through that streak he brought his talent and star power to the film that had the highest domestic gross of 1995 – and sixth-highest worldwide – playing the Riddler in Batman Forever.

Tags Batman, Batman Forever, Bruce Wayne, Films, Jim Carrey, Movies, The Riddler, What If

Films Writing

I Approach Writing the Same Way the Coen Brothers Approach Movies

Post author By Christopher Pierznik
Post date October 22, 2019
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What genre of films do the Coen brothers make?

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Books Reviews

A Colorful Career Retrospective: “A Kevin Smith Scrapbook” Reviewed

Post author By Christopher Pierznik
Post date September 17, 2018
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The best thing about the digital revolution is that there are almost no rules. Like independent films in the early ’90s, creators are using available technology to push boundaries and reinvent the way things are done. Thus, the rise of the e-book and the availability of self-publishing now allows a superfan to create their own digital scrapbook of their favorite writer/director/podcaster/author.

Tags Book Reviews, Books, Clerks, Films, Kevin Smith

Films Movies

In Defense Of… “The Incredible Hulk”

Post author By Christopher Pierznik
Post date April 20, 2018
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The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) has completely changed Hollywood. From the proliferation of comic book heroes to the notion that every major movie studio now needs its own universe in which its characters can interact through multiple films, Marvel has laid the path that all others are following, praying that they will find the same success. The films within the MCU have combined for a box office total of an estimated $14.8 billion worldwide, including five films raking in more than a billion each. In short, “Marvel has made consistent hits, which is supposedly impossible in a creative business.” But, to hear some tell it, Marvel’s record is not perfect and there are a few black marks on the studio’s résumé.

Actually, one of those marks is green.

Tags Comics, Ed Norton, Films, Marvel, Movies, Superhero, The Incredible Hulk

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Who Owns a Fictional Character?

Post author By Christopher Pierznik
Post date November 16, 2017
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For decades, fans and critics begged for Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird, to write another a novel.

In 2015, they finally got their wish. Kind of.

And, as always, you should be careful what you wish for.

Tags Books, Fiction, Films, Harper Lee, Movies, Star Wars, The Godfather, The Godfather Part III, The West Wing, To Kill a Mockingbird

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In Defense Of Tom Cruise

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“Cruise hadn’t hurt his box-office draw — his movies continued to be successful. But Hollywood was convinced he was poison, a religious fanatic, and possibly unhinged.”

– Amy Nicholson, L.A. Weekly

Tom Cruise is an all-time great actor. Don’t believe it? Look at how many people have won or been nominated for Oscars playing opposite him. He makes every actor that shares the screen with him better.

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Films In Appreciation of

In Defense Of: “The Godfather Part III”

Post author By Christopher Pierznik
Post date August 22, 2017
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“Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather Part III isn’t just a disappointment, it’s a failure of heartbreaking proportions.”

– Hal Hinson, The Washington Post

If the popular narrative is to be believed, The Godfather Part III is an abhorrent film, one that has no redeeming qualities and is so awful that it brings shame upon not only the first two films of the series, but also to America and the entire human race.