Noel Murray
Worst to First: Every ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre,’ Ranked
With ‘Leatherface’ hitting theaters, what are the best and worst ‘TCM’s? We rank them all right here.
Premakes: How Does 27-Year-Old ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Film Compare With the TV Show?
Some of the most popular movies and TV shows of all time are based on true stories or pieces of literature that have been adapted multiple times. “Premakes” looks at the similarities and differences between a modern classic and one of the lesser-known works that beat it to the marketplace.
The 21 Best Movie Musicals Of The 21st Century
The musical never completely died as a movie genre, but it did lay dormant for a good long while throughout the 1980s and ’90s, with only the occasional throwback like Pennies From Heaven, Newsies, or Everyone Says I Love You popping up, like an old memory. Back then, the movie business largely conceded its tradition of song-and-dance to Disney cartoons and MTV, assuming — wrongly — that the idea of flesh-and-blood actors breaking into big numbers in the middle of narrative feature films had become too cornball for the modern mass audience.
A Brief History of Scary Movie Clowns
For hundreds of years, we lived in a world where clowns were popularly understood to be funny and whimsical ... or, at the least, not absolutely freaking terrifying. Pop stars sang songs like “Everybody Loves a Clown” and “Send in the Clowns.” Parents hired entertainers in colorful satin outfits to do magic tricks and make balloon animals at their children’s birthday parties. Ronald McDonald sold us hamburgers. Emmett Kelly and Red Skelton were TV staples. We had a tacit cultural agreement not just to tolerate clowns, but to look forward to having them around.
16 Classic Dystopian Movie Futures (Including a Few That Should Have Happened Already)
Some say the world will end in fire; others, in ice. But whichever way we go, we can take comfort from knowing that once civilization slides into dystopia, some screenwriter will distill our downfall into a few sentences at the start of a movie.