Life Moves Pretty Fast

If I were to take the time and figure out a list of my most very favorite movies of the 1980s, four John Hughes movies would be on said list. Four more would be on a further list of “not my faves but movies I really liked.”

Double Trouble

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences — also known as the People What Give Out the Oscars — announced yesterday that effective next year, they’re expanding the number of Academy Award nominees for Best Picture from five to ten.

Link: The 10 Best Recut Movie Trailers

Via Cinematical:  Way back before this site went on its unfortunate hiatus, I linked to a trailer for a “movie” called Shining — which was simply bits of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining re-edited so that it looked like a sweet family comedy-drama rather than the nightmare-inducing-in-impressionable-eleven-year-olds horror flick it really is. [1]

Somewhat unsurprisingly, that little [...]

Continuing Up

Finishing up my inadvertent Week of Pixar-Related Stuff:

For the second straight weekend, Up was the top movie at the box office in the United States Ummm, oops, scratch that…Up was the second-place movie at the box office in the U.S. this last weekend – its gross dropped only 35% from last weekend to this weekend. [...]

Ten2One: Ranking My Pixar Favorites

Welcome to the first installment of yet another new ongoing series I just now thought up: Ten2One, which is, in all honesty, just a fancy handle for a fairly standard Top 10 list. To kick things off, in honor of the opening of Pixar’s tenth animated feature, Up, I present to you my [...]