It’s easy to get jaded, in this season of After Earths and Hangover IIIs and Furious 6es, but let’s remember: sometimes big summer blockbusters attain that phenomenal degree of success for a reason. There’s nothing wrong with a good, old-fashioned popcorn movie, and those that do it well deserve our praise. But in researching a recent roundup of favorite summer movies, your film editor was shocked to discover how many presumably beloved modern classics were not, in fact, universally acclaimed. So, as with award winners and cult classics, it’s time for another round of “movies the critics got dead wrong.” … Read More
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90 Amazing Behind-the-Scenes Photos From Your Favorite Summer Movies
Well, kids, summer movie season is in full swing, if you couldn’t tell from the many numerically organized titles in the weekly box office reports. And while there aren’t as many movies worth celebrating this summer as you might like, it is still the season that sees studios unveiling their big guns, and accidentally capturing the national zeitgeist on the side. You know how much Flavorwire loves to peek behind the scenes of iconic movies, so that’s what we’ve done here — gathering 90 set photos from 19 summer… Read More
See a 17-Year-Old Batman in an Awesome Trailer for ‘Gotham High’
Ever wonder what Bruce Wayne was like in high school? What about Bane? Did he have a problem with authority? You’re about to find out in this amazing parody trailer for a teenage-years prequel to the Dark Knight trilogy, directed by “Christopher Nolan’s son, Oliver” and flawlessly stitched together from all your favorite high school movies, heavy emphasis on 10 Things I Hate About You. With a twist at the end! We don’t know about you, but this is a movie we we totally go to see. Watch the video after the jump, and tell us if you agree in the comments. … Read More
Burton’s ‘Batman’ Sold More Tickets Than ‘Dark Knight Rises’ Has
Whether you want to blame it on the runaway early summer success of The Avengers or the impact of real life tragedy, suffice it to say that The Dark Knight Rises hasn’t delivered the box office numbers that many in the industry were expecting from the final film in such a popular franchise.… Read More
The Best Opening Scenes in Cinema
It’s been four years since Christopher Nolan’s haunting, spectacular entry in the Batman franchise, The Dark Knight. This weekend, the director will complete his trilogy featuring the Caped Crusader defending Gotham’s finest yet again. After a memorable opening scene in the second film, audiences have high hopes for their first look at The Dark Knight Rises — and we wanted to prep ourselves for an amazing introduction by looking back at other movies that kicked off their stories in wonderful ways. We’ve already proved that unforgettable opening lines can really set the tone for a film, and the opening scenes in cinema are equally, if not more, important. We’ve listed 12 of the best movie openers after the jump. Leave us your favorites in the comments below. … Read More
What Was the All-Time Best Summer for Movies?
[Editor's note: Your devoted Flavorwire team is taking Memorial Day off, but we've left you with some of our favorite summer-related features that you may have missed the first time around. This post originally ran April 24, 2012. Enjoy!]
We’ve made clear, on several occasions, our deep affection for Austin’s (and soon to be New York’s) Alamo Drafthouse, a venue that has, year after year, taken cinema obsession and programming ingenuity to new heights. This summer, however, they’ve outdone themselves: they’re paying a 30th anniversary tribute to the summer of 1982 with a series of 35mm screenings, timed to the original opening weekends of the movies that made up, in their words, “the greatest summer of movies… ever.”
That, friends, is a tall claim, and one that we felt required further investigation. After the jump, we’ve assembled ten possible contenders for that crown, along with the highlights of that particular season of movie-going; cast your ballots (or add your own alternates) in the comments. … Read More
Gallery: Eric Palmer’s 8-Bit Movie Posters
As we’ve previously noted, movie poster design can be a bit repetitive, with studios opting to use the same colors, fonts, and figure placements over and over and over again instead of challenging their audience with something that’s new. Perhaps that’s why these 8-bit film posters by Denver-based graphic designer Eric Palmer manage to feel so fresh; sure, they’re a nostalgic nod at the classic video games of the past, but they also manage to avoid the movie poster clichés that we’ve grown so tired of seeing at the cineplex. Click through to check out his work, which is available for purchase over on Society6. … Read More
10 of Pop Culture's Most Charming Sociopaths
Over the weekend Bret Easton Ellis went on one of his patented tweet binges, this time musing about writing a sequel to American Psycho set in the present day. Apparently he has already made 15 pages of notes. Among his tweeted ideas for the update: “Patrick would talk about Adele and Kanye and KATY PERRY because ‘Firework’ is his favorite song… and then he kills Katy Perry’s trainer…” While we’re skeptical about the need to trot Bateman out of retirement (have you seen the direct-to-video disaster that was American Psycho II: All American Girl?), we decided this was a great excuse to revisit a few of our favorite pop-culture sociopaths. Add to our twisted list in the comments! … Read More
Liam Neeson to Reprise ‘Batman Begins’ Role in ‘The Dark Knight Rises’?
The Dark Knight Rises, Christopher Nolan’s third and final Batman film, is in production at the moment -– it’s due out in July next year. Unsurprisingly, Warner Bros. are keeping pretty much all the details under wraps, making for an infuriating wait for fans who want to know how Nolan’s going to draw his trilogy… Read More
The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories
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