Many of the movies on this AFI top 100 list are based off of books. Funny enough, some of them are much more remembered for the movie they inspired, like The Godfather and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.…
Sometimes it’s easy to take for granted that certain genres of movies exist. We have seen so many mockumentaries, slasher films, Adam Sandler movies, that it’s easy to forget that they had to start from somewhere.…
I think it’s safe to say that we all have movie blind spots. In the last AFI article, I had talked about how I had watched The Apartment for the first time.…
Of course, for all of us, there’s fairly big movies that we haven’t seen because we had no interest in watching them. This is true for even the biggest movie buffs. Which is more rare.…
Writing in-depth about the films on this AFI list, I’ve been avoiding one type. It’s not that I don’t like them, although I’ll admit it’s way easier to get bored, but because I’m a bit intimidated by them…
Four years before he made what’s commonly regarded as the best science fiction movie of all time and sixteen years before he made what’s commonly regarded as the best horror film of all time,…
This AFI list I’ve been covering is specifically looking at the greatest American films of all time. And because of that, many of the movies have been about America, either explicitly or at least thematically…
I recently wrote an article on writer’s block, writing being one of my passions, and it led me to think about the parallels between that and an issue faced within another one of my passions: improv…
