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What’s On at Flavorpill: The Links That Made the Rounds in Our Office
Today at Flavorpill, we looked at some of David Lynch’s best non-film projects. We fell in love with Lisa Hanawalt’s hilarious illustrations of “what dogs want” over on The Hairpin. We wondered why...
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The Most Definitive Music Cues in Film History
There’s a terrific little movie coming out tomorrow called London Boulevard (it’s available now on demand as well), a tough British gangster flick along the lines of The Long Good Friday or Mona Lisa,...
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What’s On at Flavorpill: The Links That Made the Rounds in Our Office
Today at Flavorpill, we met 100 of the greatest movie villains. We loved this hilarious Thanksgiving-themed spoof on The Hunger Games from McSweeney’s. We heartily agreed with this Thanksgiving Food...
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The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories
1. Tyler, the Creator — who, along with his Odd Future cohorts, made our list of the year’s most controversial cultural icons — is in trouble again. The rapper was arrested in Hollywood last night for...
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10 Viciously Backlashed Movies We Still Like (and Why)
Backlash is a funny thing. It’s always been present in popular culture, but it feels as though it’s become particularly prominent over the past few years, an unavoidable step in any celebrated film,...
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10 of Film’s Greatest Sex Comedies
We’ve been excited about For A Good Time, Call… since its Sundance premiere, and not just because it (like fellow Sundance film Bachelorette, on demand now and in theaters next month) indicates that...
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10 Movies That Make Us Miss the Twin Towers
It’s always a bit of a jolt to flip through a photo album or an old high school yearbook and to come upon a picture of someone who’s gone, a beloved relative or a classmate who left before their time —...
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The Best Dylan Cues in Movie History
So Bob Dyan’s got a new album out today, and while your film editor usually sticks to the movie beat, it’s not like Dylan is just a music figure, or even that vaguest of descriptions, a “pop culture...
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This Supercut Will Make You Never Want to Fly Again
It has its share of problems (contrary to what the ads are showing you, it spends most of its running time being yet another addiction melodrama), but Robert Zemeckis’ Flight does have one major draw:...
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10 Movies You Never Knew Were Also TV Shows
‘Tis the season for adapting movies into television shows: A&E made a big splash with its Psycho prequel series Bates Motel (distractingly set in the modern era, so have fun untying that...
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50 Great Director Cameos in Other Directors’ Movies
Film fans love a good director cameo. Hitchcock made a trademark of them; viewers are regularly delighted by the sly appearances of Martin Scorsese, John Waters, Sydney Pollack, and many more (M. Night...
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The 50 Best Directorial Debuts in Movie History
The Toronto Film Festival, which came to a close recently, wasn’t just the starter pistol for We’re-Not-Saying-It-Yet Season; the long-term value of the festival may well be its place as a launching...
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The ‘Say Anything’ Boombox: Which Song Would Make You Take Someone Back?
On Monday (April 14), Say Anything turns 25. Both a classic in the rom-com and teen movie categories, Cameron Crowe’s directorial debut also spawned one of the most memorable musical moments in modern...
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Was ‘Say Anything…’ the End of a Teen-Movie Era?
If you ask them, people will tell you with great confidence that there’s no way Lloyd Dobler and Diane Court actually make it after the credits roll in Say Anything… Their certainty is understandable —...
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Your Weekly TV News Roundup: ‘True Blood’ Musical, Beatles Event Series
The television world moves so fast that by the time you learn of a show’s premiere, it could already be canceled. It’s hard to keep track of the constant stream of television news, so Flavorwire is...
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10 Unforgettable Pop Culture Bikinis
The Vatican declared it sinful. It was even banned by the Hollywood’s Hays Code for a time. Fashion magazines said it was tasteless. When the first “itsy-bitsy, teenie-weenie” bikini first appeared 68...
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The 25 Best Coming-of-Age Movies Ever Made
Richard Linklater’s Boyhood continues its seemingly inevitable move towards world domination, expanding to more theaters over the weekend and capturing the imaginations and hearts of even the most...
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5 Movies That Should Have Been Rated PG-13 — And 5 That Shouldn’t Have
Thirty years ago yesterday, on August 10, 1984, John Milius’ Cold War wet dream Red Dawn rolled into theaters, helping launch the careers of Patrick Swayze, Charlie Sheen, Lea Thompson, and Jennifer...
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NBC Ordered a ‘Say Anything’ TV Series and Cameron Crowe Wants To Stop It
Last night, Deadline reported than NBC ordered a script commitment plus penalty for a Say Anything series. Based on the popular 1989 Cameron Crowe movie about the relationship between Lloyd Dobler...
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Ambiguity Is Dead: ‘Say Anything,’‘The Sopranos,’ and Pop Culture’s New...
I was 14 years old when I first saw Say Anything…, and when the ending arrived, I didn’t get it. At all. I mean, there they are on the plane, having been through so much stuff: virginity loss, painful...
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