On the topic of television and manipulation, nothing quite demonstrates how our attitudes have changed from the 1950’s to today more than watching the movie Quiz Show.…
The last film, The Grapes of Wrath, came from a novel that’s fame overshadows the movie, despite the movie still making the AFI list. This one, instead, led to a TV series that also overshadows the movie.…
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,…
