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Culture Snob
http://www.culturesnob.com
essays on and reviews of pop (and not-so-pop) culture, with an emphasis on movies
- Added on: Mar 3rd, 2006
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Listed in: Film Rock Books
- Tags: reviews movies audio blog-a-thons shorts: movies box office power rankings
Recent Posts
That\'s More Like It
The One-Line Review's Iain Stott has followed up his The 50 Greatest Films project with Beyond the Canon, meant to address complaints that the first survey was too canonical. The top five: Eyes Wide Shut; Mulholland Dr.; The Killing; Eternal Sunshin...
Box Office Power Rankings: October 30-November 8, 2009
As people tell us time and time again, box-office performance is in the eye of the beholder. Box Office Mojo wrote that Michael Jackson's This Is It, in its debut weekend, did "exceptionally well for a concert picture or music documentary." On the o...
Economical Storytelling in Movies: A Case Study
Sam Raimi's Drag Me to Hell exists mostly to remind the world that Sam Raimi made The Evil Dead and can still make The Evil Dead, which is good to know because Sam Raimi is re-making The Evil Dead. But amid all the giggle-inducing grossness are a fe...
Box Office Power Rankings: October 16-25, 2009
Should we consider Spike Jonze's and Dave Eggers' adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are a disappointment? It is certainly not a miserable failure. It received good reviews, won the box office when it debuted, and also topped the Box Office Power ...
Scares on a Frightfully Small Budget
Question: Which is your favorite among these low-cost horror movies? Choices: Night of the Living Dead (1968; $114K). The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974; $140K). The Blair Witch Project (1999; $20K-$25K). Paranormal Activity (2009; $11K). See the res...
Monster Mash
Instead of generating yet another list of 20 or 50 or 100 great horror movies for Halloween-viewing consideration, I tried to approach the task a little differently. My original plan was to present many movies in various horror subgenres with differ...
