Throw on a toque and your thickest winter coat for this one! How many movies make a point out of being set in a pleasant, temperate climate? Where are the stakes in that? While we may have watched these movies with the heat running at home or in a climate-controlled theater, we could still feel the chill coming off the screen.
The 2024 Super Bowl saw the Kansas City Chiefs beat the San Francisco 49ers in an overtime thriller. Do you care? Maybe! Maybe not! But if you’re visiting us here at Nerdist, we’re pretty sure we know something you definitely care about: the commercials.
Along with the vampire and Frankenstein’s monster, the werewolf has remained one of the most recognizable monsters in the movies. It’s thus worth looking at the best the werewolf genre has to offer to see how the beast has changed over time.
The cinema has long been fascinated with the issue of religion, and it has been particularly interested in faith figures — the men and women who, in one way or another, have inspired the masses. Indeed, the very best of such films help shed light on how the moving image can be a mode of devotion.
Many actors have been recognized by their faces, but only the greats are recognized by their voices.
Though the horror genre is the Hollywood mode of filmmaking most associated with terrifying killers, such figures have also regularly appeared in many other types of movies. These individuals are, in many ways, the expression of some of humanity’s most pervasive and uncontrollable fears and desires.
Biopics, and works of historical fiction, know who to cast to give their film some cache. If a historical movie is coming out, there’s a good chance one or more of these actors are going to pop up on the screen.
Maybe the MCU is falling away from the zeitgeist, but the legacy cannot be denied. Neither can the many memorable quotes from the Marvel movies. This is a list of the quintessential MCU quotes from across the series.
We’ve all been there. You hear somebody misquoting a movie, and debate whether or not to bite your tongue. They’ve gotten the quote wrong, and you know it. These are notable lines from films that people frequently are just a bit off on.
Showbiz careers can span a long time. At an age when many are retired, actors and directors can not only work, but thrive. There are actors and directors who have won Oscars after turning 60.
More than anything else, the best movies about American history allow for a keener, more complex understanding of how those living in the present make sense of what has come before as they try to figure out where to go in the future.
Though films and TV series about the Middle Ages do not always attract the same level of love and critical praise as those set in other periods of history, there are still a number of notable films and TV series which take the period as their setting.
By this point, the MCU is littered with the best actors in the world. In fact, this is so true we were able to look at every actor to be in an MCU movie and rank the top 20. Who are the best actors to appear in the MCU? Here is our ranking.
These days, the idea of watching the Super Bowl “for the commercials” has become less commonplace. Not that the Super Bowl isn’t still a showcase for advertising, but many of the time, those ads are posted online early.
There are breakouts alongside legends, turns that chew the scenery, and turns that are as subtle as the breeze. This year gave us more variety than most, but we still had to narrow our list down to 22. Here are the best performances of the bunch.
While blockbusters like Top Gun: Maverick and Jurassic World dominated the box office, these titles were left to fend for themselves. That doesn't mean they were any less powerful. Our list is here to remind you of their power.
Here are the most memorable films and TV shows set up north…way up north.
Regardless of which type they are, everyone loves a good vampire movie to sink their teeth into.
As LFO told us, “Billy Shakespeare wrote a whole bunch of sonnets.” However, William Shakespeare wrote some plays as well, and many of his plays have been turned into movies.
Hopkins won best actor at the 1992 Oscars for 'Silence of the Lambs', and more recently, the 84-year-old made history at last year's Academy Awards by winning best actor for his role in 'The Father'.
Paul Thomas Anderson broke out with his film “Boogie Nights,” a tale of sex, drugs, and depravity in the 1970s and 1980s porn industry in the San Fernando Valley. It’s a kinetic, chaotic, brightly colored film with a killer ensemble. That same man proceeded to make a classic movie that’s…a bleak, desaturated film with like three characters set in the early 1900s oil industry.
Maybe read them with the lights on.
Derrick Boseman is pretty sure that everybody else is way more concerned with who won best actor at the 93rd Academy Awards than his brother would have been.
The 93rd Academy Awards broadcast was building up to end on an emotional high, memorializing Chadwick Boseman with a posthumous Oscar for best actor—until it wasn't.
Anthony Hopkins was recognized by the Academy Awards on Sunday night—marking his first Oscar win since 1992 when he claimed best actor for Silence of the
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