Every so often, a story comes along in which no one (or almost no one) makes it out alive, and even if they do, they are either physically dying or dead on the inside.
There’s a unique pleasure in the political satire. Whether in film or on television, well-wrought satires ask the viewer to think critically about the nature of politics, how power works, and how mendacity can overwhelm even the most upright political figures.
Adapting a novel to film or television is a notoriously tricky business. Sometimes, adapters decide to make substantial changes to even those characters that make the final cut for inclusion, and there are a surprising number of films and TV series in which a character suffers a great deal more than their novel counterpart.
The last director nominated for his film's VFX was Stanley Kubrick — who won for "2001: A Space Odyssey."
Given their ambiguous nature, it’s unsurprising that hotels have been the settings for everything from sitcoms to dramas, absurdist comedies to gripping horror. The best hotels on-screen make the viewer feel as if they, too, are in this peculiar locale, with all the pleasures and perils that entails.
People often go to sci-fi films to see the world brought to life in ways new, strange, and sometimes terrifying, precisely because the genre is so adept at taking things in the present and exploring what they might look like in the future.
If we learned anything from watching the Stanley Kubrick classic “2001: A Space Odyssey,” it was to take a cautious approach to trusting machines that think.
The best horror films allow the viewer to develop an emotional attachment to a particular character or characters before finally shuffling them off this mortal coil. When a horror film nails the sadness factor, it can make for a triumph of scary cinema.
The term "auteur" refers to filmmakers with a distinct approach to their craft that gives their films a personal and singular stamp. Many directors in the film industry, past and present, fall into this category.
Furniture is one of those things we all have in our everyday lives, but we probably don’t notice until it breaks. It’s also one of those things you see in almost every movie or TV show, but you don’t notice unless it comes to life and starts talking or becomes the focus of a major plot point. It’s time they get their due.
From the beginning, the film industry has been obsessed with science. Many films, even fictional ones, have drawn on scientific facts to ground fictional realities and grant them a greater verisimilitude.
Sometimes, a person is haunted. Other times, though, a person is in a space that’s haunted. The idea of a haunted house is almost as old as the concept of houses.
'80s Week: Garrett Brown, Stanley Kubrick, and the decade when Steadicam forever altered the language of camera movement.
Great directors rarely have a perfect track record. Sometimes, a film from a luminary of the big screen is fine. On occasion, though, a vaunted director, a true near-legend or outright legend, delivers a bad movie.
There are 1,001 ways to be possessed by people and things that aren’t just horned creatures who are doomed to do the bidding of the Dark Lord Satan. These are the best of the possessed.
Here are some of the most memorable movies about the looming specter of the Atomic Age.
It opens, of course, with an homage to Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey.” A dazzling sunrise stretches over a barren desert, populated exclusively with sad-eyed Dust Bowl-era girls and their unblinking baby dolls, as Helen Mirren (!!) narrates us through what life was like pre-Barbie.
Amid the “Oppenheimer” anticipation, another bomb has been dropped: Stanley Kubrick’s “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb” will be adapted as a stage production on the West End.
“I remember seeing a film that became really formative for me called ‘Ruby in Paradise.’ It was a film about a young woman finding herself. It’s a simple film.
The creepy smile is a trope that’s old as the medium of movies. Here are the best smiles that made us think of the worst things in movies.
There have been thrillers, horror movies, and comedies built on the back of the fact sometimes people are way up there in the air with nowhere to go.
With some directors, you know what you’re getting. With these versatile directors, however, you can't always be quite sure what you're going to get.
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