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If you love movies about music, then this list is for you.

via 10 Movies About Music That You Need To See — Let’s talk about movies

Living on lockdown, quarantine, or self-imposed isolation due to this horror film we’re collectively starring in right now got me thinking about how easy it used to be to move through and within the subcultures of certain communal spaces. Specifically, because I’m a nerd to the nth degree, I’m thinking about a range of public […]

via “I’m very good at the past. It’s the present I can’t understand”: Disappearing Subcultures — The Starfire Lounge

“Sixteen Candles” is still a charming teen comedy despite its flaws.

via Sixteen Candles Blu-ray Review — DVD Corner’s blog

The Sure Thing (1985)Written by Steven Bloom and Jonathan RobertsDirected by Rob Reiner Rob Reiner had just come off of his debut film, the hilarious This Is Spinal Tap. His next project was The Sure Thing, a teen sex comedy, seemingly very different from that first feature. Reiner decided to make it the kind of […]

via Movie Review – The Sure Thing —

How many times have you heard the expression “the book is always better than the movie?” For us book and film lovers, we hear it all the time. Very rarely do I watch a film and think to myself, that was better than the book. In fact, about 95% of the time I have read […]

via Film as History: Baseball Style — Joseph Thompson, PhD.

Are we allowed to like Rocky Horror anymore? It can be a little hard to tell these days. I thought Buffy was still okay, but apparently it depends on to whom you are talking… or, more troublingly, who is listening twice removed. Lauding Gloria Steinem and the feminists of the 70s can get you in […]

via Are we allowed to like Rocky Horror anymore? — Can someone please explain…?

Better Off Dead (1985)Written & Directed by Savage Steve Holland I turned four years old in the summer of 1985, so my memory of the year is foggy at best. What I know about this mid-point in the decade came from retrospectively consuming media when I was older. Back to the Future is probably the […]

via Movie Review – Better Off Dead —

Hasitha Fernando presents his top five underrated Stephen King movie adaptations… stephen-king-600×280 Whatever label you wish to slap on it- resurgence, revival or renaissance- there’s no escaping the inevitable cold-hard truth; Hollywood is finally taking the Horror genre seriously. Naturally, in the wake of this recent phenomenon, there has been a renewed interest in Stephen […]

via Top 5 Underrated Stephen King Movie Adaptations — befarmed.wordpress.com

Featuring interviews with John Cusack, Nick Hornby, Jack Black, Stephen Frears, and many more.

via Top Five: An Oral History of High Fidelity — Consequence of Sound

Quite how it had taken so many years for me to finally watch this film is quite beyond me. Its not as if I never read Stephen King stories or watch the movies based on them- quite the contrary. And yet it has taken so many years- Stand By Me was released back in 1986, […]

via Stand By Me and counting the years — the ghost of 82