In Contention

Searching for Oscar meaning in IMDb’s top 15 of the millennium

Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:02 am · August 19th, 2009

Over at IMDb there is a new feature called “The Power of Film” (lofty title, that), which has listed out the top 15 films of the millennium as voted on by IMDB users, i.e., fans, the public, regular folks. The IMDb top 250 is an ever-changing mish-mash of high-,middle- and low-brow entertainment that always makes [...]

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THE LISTS: Top 10 action sequences of all time

Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 12:52 pm · May 19th, 2009

The summer is here. Three weeks in and we’ve seen the first two action blockbusters of the season and the first adult-oriented thrill-ride, with fighting machines, historical actioners and high concept comedies still to come. But while the summer movie season has grown into an amalgamation of these separate examples of a given film-going experience, [...]

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