In writer/director J.S. Cardone's neo-noirish, adventure crime-thriller about a road-trip, with themes of robbery, deceit, adultery, confused identities, and sexual situations in the desert - and a ...

In co-writer/director John Dahl's visually-stylistic neo-noir crime drama-thriller - the sleeper film (rated R mostly for graphic violence) was Dahl's debut feature film. He would go on to direct two ...

Other Early Classic Horror Films: Together, Lugosi and Karloff also starred in three films together, the best being their first film - Edgar Ulmer's The Black Cat (1934) (based on an Edgar Allen Poe ...

Directed by co-writer Abram Room, this comedic, modern love-triangle silent film drama was considered a Soviet version of Ernst Lubitsch's Design For Living (1933), and had hints of Francois ...

The mid-to-late 70s and early 80s inaugurated a period of low-brow, teasy, R-rated sexy, US-made teen comedies (horror films not usually included) with gratuitous nudity, mindlessly weak plots, and ...

A Clockwork Orange (1971) is producer-director-screenwriter Stanley Kubrick's randomly ultra-violent, over-indulgent, graphically-stylized film of the near future. It was a terrifying, gaudy film ...

It's A Wonderful Life (1946), originally made for Liberty Films, is one of the most popular and heartwarming films ever made by director Frank Capra. Frank Capra regarded this film as his own personal ...

Each movie had to "embody that rock spirit of artful defiance," and each director was limited to only one movie. "Corruption and political coverups in 1930s Los Angeles are the hooks on which Polanski ...

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The American Film Institute in Los Angeles, California, in mid-June 2000 selected America's 100 Funniest Movies with a blue-ribbon panel or "jury" of more than 1,800 leaders of the American movie ...

It employed both revolutionary, never-before-seen techniques and traditional visual-special effects (including miniature models, matte paintings, rear projection, and stop motion). For example, both ...

Carnival Barker's Introduction of a Real Freak - The Opening and Closing Scenes A carnival barker (Murray Kinnell) opened the film with an enticement to customers, and his explanation of the sideshow ...