ViacomCBS has been heavily advertising Paramount+, its new streaming service, with an ad campaign that has some of its biggest stars — everyone from James Corden to Beavis and Butt-Head — on an expedition to scale Paramount Mountain.
Almost 50 years ago, there was another Hollywood movie about Billie Holiday. "Lady Sings the Blues" starred Diana Ross as the talented but troubled jazz singer. Ross was good in the role, but the film was a muddled mess of dramatic situations that didn't exactly stick to the truth, that play…
Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo, the Oscar-nominated writers of the 2011 hit comedy "Bridesmaids," finally reunite to stir up more funny business in "Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar." The duo, BFFs in real life, wrote the script and co-star as a pair of fluffy-haired best friends who leave t…
For the fourth filmed version of Noel Coward's hit stage play "Blithe Spirit," director Edward Hall and his battery of script writers have managed to keep much of the ditzy original flavor of the Coward piece - it's still set in 1930s England - but also make it accessible to and funny for mo…
Stacker compiled data on all feature-length dramas with at least four critic reviews through Metacritic and ranked them according to Metascore, with ties broken internally by Metacritic. Rankings are accurate as of Jan. 26, 2021.
Stacker compiled a list of the 100 best biopics of all time, ranked according to the Stacker score—a weighted index split between Metacritic and IMDb scores.
Stacker takes a look at the winner for Golden Globes' best drama from the year you were born.Â
I can't recall the last film that has been so praised, so nominated by so many film and critics groups as "Nomadland." Categories include Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress and others. It's also been collecting heaps of …
'Zack Snyder's Justice League,' the much clamored for director's cut of the 2017 film, is premiering on HBO Max with additional footage and Jared Leto's Joker added in.
Stacker used data from ranking site the-numbers.com to bring you the highest-grossing actors in the entertainment industry over the age of 50.
HBO Max will feature many big movies this year — all of Warner Bros.' 2021 film slate, in fact. However, one of the biggest movies hitting the new service isn't from 2021. It's not even new; it's a fresh take on a film from four years ago.
I started watching this movie - reluctantly, because someone told me it was about people caught in a time loop, a genre that has worn out its welcome for me. And right there, in the first few minutes, it was as if I was caught in my own time loop, of seeing exactly this sort of film again an…
Stacker presents the top 50 movies of the ’60s, as determined by a Stacker score—a weighted index split evenly between IMDb and Metacritic scores
With Oscar season nearing and several major sporting events on the horizon, Stacker presents a list of the best sports documentaries of all time.
Stacker compiled data from Rotten Tomatoes of the best dog movies of all time. This list is current up through Jan. 31, 2021.
The main reason that so many people have to head to Google if asked who Fred Hampton was is that he died young, in a rain of gunfire perpetrated by the Chicago Police Department ... or were they directed to kill him by J. Edgar Hoover and his FBI?
The main reason that so many people have to head to Google if asked who Fred Hampton was is that he died young, in a rain of gunfire perpetrated by the Chicago Police Department ... or were they directed to kill him by J. Edgar Hoover and his FBI?
Christopher Plummer, the elegantly voiced, Oscar-winning actor perhaps most fondly remembered for "The Sound of Music," died Friday at his home in Connecticut, his manager said in a statement. He was 91.
Stacker uses the most recent data from Metacritic to determine the best animated films of all time.
Fans of "The Matrix" trilogy will recognize, early on, that there are some similarities between those films and "Bliss." Both are about certain people having choices of living in two different existences. Both involve ingesting special drugs to go from one "place" to the other. Both feature …
Hal Holbrook, a legendary Emmy and Tony Award winning actor, died January 23 at his California home, his daughter Victoria told CNN on Tuesday.
You are going to love this or you are going to turn it off, 15 minutes in, after or during a spell of head scratching. There will be no middle ground.
Using the trademark Stacker score, a weighted index of Metacritic and IMDb scores, Stacker rounded up the best movies from the ‘70s.
Cicely Tyson, an award-winning icon of the stage and screen who broke barriers for Black actresses with surpassing dignity, died Thursday, her longtime manager Larry Thompson confirmed to CNN.
If the kind of movie that you enjoy watching is one that presents a few characters, tosses them together to tell a story, and gets you emotionally involved, then "Palmer" could be for you. But if those characters aren't developed enough to understand their motivations, if the gears that turn…
Here's what "The Little Things" is, and what it isn't. It's a serial killer drama about a couple of cops on the trail of who they think is committing the crimes. It's not an exploitative story that shows the horrific murders happening. It spells out how the two cops, each of them with very d…
Cloris Leachman, the acclaimed actress whose one-of-a-kind comedic flair made her a legendary figure in film and television for seven decades, has died, according to a statement from her longtime manager and representatives. She was 94.
"The Little Things" is a drama about two cops trying to solve a series of murders, and how personal obsessions with the cases get in the way of them doing their jobs. Those two cops - played by Denzel Washington and Rami Malek - hold every bit of every viewer's attention with deeply interior…
"No Time to Die," the latest film in the James Bond series and one of the most anticipated movies of 2021, has been delayed again.
Gangster films have long been a staple of Hollywood, and they've come in all sorts of different guises. There were the early, straightforward good guys vs. bad guys offerings such as "Little Caesar" and "The Roaring Twenties," the lean, violent ones including "Reservoir Dogs" and "Mean Stree…
ViacomCBS' newly rebranded streaming service Paramount+ will go live on March 4, the company announced Tuesday.
For her feature film directorial debut, actress Regina King sets four men in a motel room in 1964, then has them talk - to and about each other, about themselves, and about philosophical, political, and social issues of the day.
People who watch movies with Tom Hanks in them are usually there more because of Tom Hanks than the movie. With the exception of his frightening killer in "Road to Perdition" and the repulsive author (one of six different characters) he played in "Cloud Atlas," Hanks has been drawn to portra…
Forget the ludicrous mini-series "Tiger King," which premiered right around the same time as the pandemic hit America. Forget Tony the Tiger, whose voice and visage have sold millions of boxes of Frosted Flakes. Forget, if you're an old hippie, Tiger Balm, the cooling, menthol-infused cream …
There's a special sort of small British film that doesn't have a precise label, but often has adjectives such as feelgood or laidback attached to it. Top of my head: "Waking Ned Devine," "Calendar Girls," "The Full Monty," "Happy-Go-Lucky." Frequently they're much more about characters and w…
Actress Tanya Roberts, who played a role as a Bond girl in "A View to a Kill," has died at 65 after collapsing at her home.
No one would argue that feminist-WWII-action-horror films are in short supply these days. Throw in a bit of soap opera sensibility, and it's safe to say that "Shadow in the Cloud" is a hybrid that's one of a kind. It's also, in just about every way imaginable - with the exception of one outs…
Delaying a Fast & Furious movie is no easy feat.
The box office numbers are in, and Warner Bros. says "Wonder Woman 1984" is a hit.
December has always been one of Hollywood's blockbuster months. Hit films like The Lord of the Rings trilogy, "Avatar" and Disney's Star Wars films have all brought in big box office numbers during the holiday season.
There's plenty to recommend about "The Midnight Sky," the film adaptation of Lily Brooks-Dalton's spare and elegant 2016 science fiction novel "Good Morning, Midnight."
This new Pixar film keeps two main characters at its fore: An adult human named Joe, and a very, very, very old soul - with a sardonic teenager's sensibility - named or, actually, numbered 22.
For fans of 2017's "Wonder Woman," there's something familiar and comforting about the opening scenes of "Wonder Woman 1984." We're back on the island of Themyscira, circa 1900, populated only by women, all of whom are as athletic as they are stunningly beautiful, and by little Princess Dian…
William Goldman, the famed screenwriter of classics like "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and "All The President's Men," once said that "nobody knows anything" in Hollywood. If there was one quote that summed up the entertainment industry in 2020, that would be it.
Not very cinematic - most of it takes place in a couple of small rooms - with a weak and very sudden out-of-left-field climax, "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" is nevertheless a marvelously entertaining film that highlights a superb ensemble cast and a couple of standout performances.
Linguistic scholars will not be happy with the English translation for the title of this Danish film. When it was released in Denmark, it was called "Druk," a Danish term for binge drinking. American audiences are getting it as "Another Round," a happier-sounding, more celebratory version of…
Gal Gadot did not burst, sight unseen, onto the American movie landscape as the golden tiara-wearing, glowing lariat-twirling, eternally truth-telling Wonder Woman. She had already been a recurring character - the weapon-savvy Gisele - in the "Fast & Furious" franchise, and had minor rol…
When am I going to learn not to judge a book by its cover, or a movie by its title, or by what I think is its premise? I almost passed on watching "The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee." The title is too long and formal. And I was led to believe that it was a comedy about the Australian actor Paul …
The 1970s life of Jean and Eddie (Rachel Brosnahan and Bill Heck), in some Pittsburgh suburb, seems routine, kind of humdrum. She makes him breakfast every morning, he heads off to work, she stays home and putters around. No kids, just the two of them. He comes home. Same thing next day. The…
Do you have a favorite Bee Gees song? How about a favorite Bee Gee? For the younger members of this readership, do you know who the Bee Gees were?
It's December. It's officially pre-awards season, when all the film critics and voters begin thinking about Top-10 lists and nominees. Here's a hot tip for those folks - and for normal moviegoers: Be sure to see "Mank." It's the equivalent of one-stop shopping if you're looking for candidate…
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Countessofcoin said:
Fracking creepy.
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jrbcahoward said:
Enjoyed this article very much! Prayers for Will and his family...from a fellow Citadel grad ('89) and career Army officer....
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