You can find the full list of the top 100 blockbusters since 1972 here, as well as an index for other posts in this series. Every director you’ve ever heard of is begging you to see their movie on the biggest screen you can. Now that I’m getting old, my reaction to those Fathom Events screenings… Read More Top 100 Blockbusters of the Multiplex Era: The 60-Foot Face
As many of you were, I was inspired by the list released by Empire on Thanksgiving this year. It is, a little cheekily, titled “The 100 Greatest Movies,” and I say cheekily because there’s no way that the people publishing this can possibly imagine that these are, by any standard, the one hundred greatest movies.… Read More Top 100 Blockbusters of the Multiplex Era: Introduction
Before the Internet, it was very clear to me that Luke Skywalker was the hero of the Star Wars films. He was the one imbued with special powers, the only good guy with a lightsaber, the one who blew up the first Death Star and who, in a sort of oblique way, was responsible for… Read More Star Wars I-VI Project: Episodes V-VI
Seeing Things Secondhand 