Action Countdown Bonus: Best Action Franchise of All Time
Today we are taking a break from our countdown before the top 5 in order to share our picks for the best action franchise of all time.
Read MoreToday we are taking a break from our countdown before the top 5 in order to share our picks for the best action franchise of all time.
Read Moreby Daniel Scully
Most people don’t look at a movie like The General and categorize it as a spy movie. And why would they? Buster Keaton’s 1926 silent classic may be considered a masterwork from the early days of cinema, but nothing about it rings of espionage. Anyone who has seen it knows that it’s just a long showcase of visual gags designed to exhibit the technical ingenuity of the filmmakers, and as the last entry in Keaton’s independent filmography before moving into a tumultuous relationship with the studio system, it could even be argued that it’s the first legitimate stunt reel ever made. If anything, it’s a relic from such an early time in Hollywood that it almost predates genre, existing in the minds of many viewers as a “silly silent movie that I’m supposed to respect because film nerds tell me I should.” And while it’s not not that, it really is so much more…
Read MoreWelcome to this week’s installment of Can’t Care, Moviejawn’s weekly roundup of all the entertainment news we just can’t care about.
Francis Friel, The Projectionist
Hello again and welcome back to Mel Gibson, Hollywood Maverick, Continues To Divebomb Into Cinema Obscurity, A Free-Flowing Adventure of Eternal Recurrence.
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