The Movie Lists

There’s looking in the movies and then there’s looking good in the movies. Here are 10 style gurus who’ve never gotten the praise they deserve.

1.Michael Douglas
The China Syndrome

Style Syndrome.

2.Jon Cryer
Pretty In Pink

He deserved everything that happened to him.

3.Rodney Dangerfield
Caddy Shack

I bet you get more than a bowl of soup with that outfit.

5.Randy Quaid
Christmas Vacation

He got himself something really nice.

6.Liza Minnelli
Arthur

I’m a cowboy.

7.Bruce Willis
12 Monkeys

I don’t think you’re gonna really be under-the-radar wearing threads like these.

8.Johnny Depp & Benicio Del Toro
Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas

“We’ll need a very fast car with no top and after that, the cocaine. And then the tape recorder, for special music, and some Acapulco shirts.” Of course- the Acapulco shirts.

9.Harvey Keitel
Taxi Driver

They don’t call him “Sport” for nothing.

10.Keifer Sutherland
The Lost Boys

How can someone who sleeps in a cave look so good- and spend so much time on his hair?

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Television has long been a favorite subject for the moviemakers. Perhaps it’s because railing on TV is the closest they get to reproaching their own industry. In the early 90s we were warned, “TV is the reason why less than 10 percent of our nation reads books daily, why most people think Central America means Kansas, socialism means un-American, and Apartheid is a new headache remedy.” And two decades and a couple hundred more channels later, it appears television still is “the drug of the nation”. Here are 10 movies about television.

1.Quiz Show

“Cheating on a quiz show? That’s sort of like plagiarizing a comic strip.” 

2.Network

“We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, ‘Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won’t say anything. Just leave us alone.’”

3.A Face in the Crowd

“I’m not just an entertainer. I’m an influence, a wielder of opinion, a force… a force!”

4.Videodrome

“I’m looking for something that’ll… break through. You know?” 

5.Broadcast News

“A lot of alliteration from anxious anchors placed in powerful posts!” 

6.UHF

“Lesbian Nazi Hookers Abducted by UFOs and Forced Into Weight Loss Programs… all next week on Town Talk.” 

7.The Insider

-”I’m just a commodity to you, aren’t I? I could be anything. Right? Anything worth putting on between commercials.”
-”To a network, probably, we’re all commodities.”

8.Tootsie

-”I’m just an untalented old has-been.” 
-”Were you ever famous?”
-”No.” 
“Then how can you be a has-been?”

9.The Truman Show

“If his was more than just a vague ambition, if he was absolutely determined to discover the truth, there’s no way we could prevent him.”

10.Good Night and Good Luck

“We have currently a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. Our mass media reflect this. But unless we get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse, and insulate us, then television and those who finance it, those who look at it, and those who work at it, may see a totally different picture too late.”

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In fourth century B.C. Athens, schools were public, and they were small, with no more than 15 students. Once students had learned to read and write, they studied poetry, plays, and historical works. They trained in wrestling and gymnastics, and every student was taught to play a musical instrument. But that was a long time ago. Here are 10 Wild College Movies. [...]

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The bookstore, a physical location where you can go and buy books, is not long for this world. Digital media continues to expand and ebook sales continue to outpace hardback sales. And while with the book’s demise might mean more trees remain standing, librophiles everywhere will surely come crashing down in anguish, for no tablet or mobile device can never replace the texture or smell of a book or the wonderful discoveries one can make while browsing through a bookshop. Who knows, you may even meet someone special. So relish ye bookstores while ye may, and check out these 10 movie bookstores.  [...]

There are few grumpy old white men out there who are trying to limit the rights woman have struggled for so long to secure. Since our days of living in trees, men have been trying to control women and make them subservient. To control the woman is to suppress the life force that terrifies us dudes. Don’t let it happen, ladies. Here are 10 badass movie chicks to get you fired up. [...]

Word is that Woody Allen may be considering Copenhagen as the location for his next film. Following such recent internationally-set films as “Midnight In Paris” and “Vicky Christina Barcelona”, it seems the legendary director is enjoying his cinematic jaunt around the globe. So here are 10 more suggested cities for Woody Allen films. [...]

Are you dissatisfied with the life you have, the way you look, the things you do? Do you know someone who’s just got it all- the perfect life, the perfect body, the perfect personality? Have you ever casually wished on some kind of ancient talisman that you could swap places with that person, even if it’s just for a day? Be careful, because you may get exactly what you wish for! Here are Body-Swap Movies. [...]

Webster’s defines a despot as: “a ruler who holds absolute power, typically exercising that power in a cruel or oppressive way”. From the Pharaohs to Fidel, there have always been those who want to rule everything. And whether they were made fun of for being short as a child or weren’t hugged enough by their mother, nothing seems to fill that hole inside. When you really sit down to look at it, however, absolute power is absurd and the ones that clamor for it even more so. So let’s look at 10 films that examined the evil and often strangely hilarious reigns of some of history’s biggest assholes. Here are 10 despots in the movies. [...]