Bollywood films can be an acquired taste, though, even their keenest detractors can find time for Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India. Released on June 15th, 2001, it earned itself 54 awards and 20 nominations, including an Academy Award nomination in 2002 for Best...
From a mother’s panicked shriek of “KEVIN!” to “Merry Christmas Ya Filthy Animal,” we can all offer up a slew of quotes from the 1990 classic Home Alone. In the weeks leading up to its release, the box office had been owned by the likes...
The summer of 1995 was a scorcher, at least, at the box office. June’s top films were an eclectic menagerie of friendly ghosts (Casper), best-selling fiction turned to film (Congo), unstoppable superheroes (Batman Forever), and Disney (Pocahontas), but July would belong almost entirely to the...
There’s no place like home for the holidays! It was the “happiest Christmas since Bing Crosby tap-danced with Danny f-ing Kaye,” and every slightly flawed family rejoiced at the holiday hijinks in National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation when it arrived to U.S. theaters on Friday, December...
A hypnotic suggestion gone awry, a murder mystery, and Kevin Bacon. All this and more commingled to create the Supernatural Horror offering Stir of Echoes, which arrived to theaters 20 years ago on Friday, September 10, 1999. It was a big year for ghost stories with...
A little boy softly informs us, “I see dead people,” but this cannot possibly prepare us for the surprise ending of all surprise endings. Single-handedly introducing a talented new writer-director to the world, M. Night Shyamalan’s The Sixth Sense arrived to nationwide theaters on Friday,...
Panicked, frantic breaths echo in our ears as condensation collects on the lens and fogs our view of a race through the woods, our protagonist stumbling through the leaves in terror. Do you remember the first time you witnessed a Found Footage flick that scared...
Flash, a-ah, savior of the universe. Flash, a-ah, he'll save every one of us! First thing’s first: in case you don’t already know, Flash Gordon is not a Horror film, though the deliciously fun blend of Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Action, and Adventure is still much-beloved across genres...
It’s a major award! Thirty-five years ago, on Friday, November 18, 1983, the beloved Christmas classic A Christmas Story arrived to theaters and the rest is fragile (that’s fra-geel-lay) history! Who does not know the story of little blonde-headed Ralphie Parker (Peter Billingsley: Sherman Oaks series,...
It was 25 years ago that the Pumpkin King of Halloween Town first proclaimed, “This is Halloween!” On Friday, October 29, 1993, Tim Burton’s stop-motion musical The Nightmare Before Christmas arrived to theaters and would quickly grow to become a holiday-bending, cult classic. [caption id="attachment_191775" align="alignleft"...
