While Breaking Bad was about the production and trade with methamphetamine and the huge amounts of money to be made with it, it was quite lacking in the actual
The Shawshank Redemption is ranked as the "Top Rated" movie according to IMDB's Top 250 List. What makes it so important and unique in the world of cinema? Do
I found this article claiming that Leonardo DiCaprio really ate raw bison liver and slept inside of dead animals for the filming of The Revenant (2015). Yet I n
As I understand, a B-movie gets its rating prior to becoming publicly available. As a result (correct me if I am wrong), it is not yet known the true public rat
On the Wikipedia page for "Nightmare Alley" (1947) it says ....the film was not a financial success upon its original release, due in part to protests ag
It's not a secret that all of Malick's movies revolve around male characters. Nevertheless, I was a bit impressed when checking this infograph
Frank Darabont's movie The Mist is based on a Stephen King short story The Mist. But the two do not have the same ending. Here is how the short story ends (as
The 1980's film "Mazes and Monsters" is often cited along other materials as evidence of the dangers of pen-and-paper role-playing games; the film is a thinly-v
So I recently watched the movie Taxi Driver after hearing a lot about it, and I have one question. Why is the 'You talking to me'? speech so famous? I've heard
I personally don't like to watch shows with laugh tracks, but we do know that a crowd can be "warmed up" to laugh at almost anything, laughter
As a kid, I enjoyed Coming to America immensely. Rewatching it as an adult, it occurred to me that it's one of the first films I can think of with an almost all
The movie Clue had three filmed endings (with a fourth planned but supposedly not filmed). When released, different theaters got different copies, so not everyo
I've noticed that there seems to be a difference in the way that television is shown during the Christmas / New Year period in the UK vs USA. Here in the UK, t
In 2005 I had the pleasure to see an animated cartoon brought to life on the big screen: Æon Flux. The post-modern architecture, the action, the cheesy li
I watched Elle (2016) last night and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Before watching the movie I read in many places that it's a highly controversial movie. But after
In many cases movies have been altered after pre-screening tests. A notorious example is Little Shop of Horrors (1986). In the original ending, Audrey and Seym
One of the most common "normal people" gripes I usually hear about TV shows and films is that directors love to shoot "dark" scenes (literally dark - there is n
In the beginning of Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2, some reports are shown about the original Blair Witch Project, claiming that the town of Burkittsville was f
This line from the film On the Waterfront generally appears on most lists of the greatest or most famous movie lines ever uttered: You don't understand. I c
The Greatest Showman will be in theaters in two days, but I cannot find any reviews of it online. Reviews usually come out days or weeks before a movie's releas