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The 100 Best Sci-Fi Films Of All Time

May 15, 2017 12:23 pm

If there was ever a time where sci-fi was seen as something only for geeks, that time has long gone. You could debate the exact point at which it changed — when Stanley Kubrick’s “2001” had audiences dropping a...

Fritz Lang’s ‘Metropolis’ To Become TV Series From The Team Behind ‘Mr. Robot’

Elizabeth MacLeod

December 21, 2016 4:56 pm

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Has Hollywood’s obsession with reboots/remakes gone too far? Sam Esmail, creator of the mind-breaking television series “Mr. Robot” and temporally trippy film “Comet,” is set to adapt the 1927 Fritz Lang film “...

Frank Ocean’s 100 Favorite Films Includes Movies By Stanley Kubrick, Werner Herzog, Paul Thomas Anderson, More

Kevin Jagernauth

August 25, 2016 10:20 am

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After countless rumors of release dates, delays, and social media teases, this past weekend, Frank Ocean floored the music world by dropping two albums — Endless and Blonde — along with a massive magazine title...

Watch: Supercut Highlights 26 Movies With Beautiful Black-And-White Cinematography

Zach Hollwedel

August 4, 2015 3:13 pm

News

Watch: Supercut Highlights 26 Movies With Beautiful Black-And-White Cinematography

10 Essential Movies About Artificial Intelligence

Nikola Grozdanovic and Rodrigo Perez

April 9, 2015 3:03 pm

Features

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10 Essential Movies About Artificial Intelligence

Watch: 1984 Restoration Of Fritz Lang’s ‘Metropolis’ With Soundtrack Featuring Freddie Mercury, Adam Ant & Pat Benatar

Cain Rodriguez

July 31, 2014 11:01 am

News

Watch: 1984 Restoration Of Fritz Lang's 'Metropolis' With Soundtrack Featuring Freddie Mercury, Adam Ant & Pat Benatar

Fritz Lang’s Restored ‘Metropolis’ Gets Trailer & Theatrical Release Dates

Christopher Bell

April 27, 2010 5:22 pm

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It only took 83 years. But thanks to a miraculous discovery of a 16 mm print in an Argentinian film archive, featuring nearly half an hour of never-before-seen footage, Fritz Lang's "Metropolis" is now back to ...

Monster Madness: Vlad The Impaler Action Flick & Dean Koontz’s Modern Frankenstein Adaptations In The Works

Rodrigo Perez

February 16, 2010 8:04 pm

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"The Machinist" screenwriter Scott Kosar has been hired to write the script for "Vlad," which takes an action-oriented look at Dracula, or Vlad the Impaler. Charlie Hunnam (the blonde British kid of "Undeclared...

BAMcinemaFEST To Feature ‘Big Fan,’ ‘Humpday’ ‘Beeswax’ & Many More In Festival Running June 17–July 2

Rodrigo Perez

April 21, 2009 4:30 pm

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Earlier this year, we lamented the fact that Brooklyn's BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) theater would no longer be running its excellent Sundance At Bam series. For those not in New York, Sundance at BAM took p...

An Indy-like Holy Grail Discovery: Lost Scenes Of Fritz Lang’s ‘Metropolis’ Found In South America

Rodrigo Perez

July 3, 2008 2:59 pm

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Doesn't that headline sound like a meta version of an Indiana Jones movie? Maybe Spielberg and company woulda had more luck if they made Dr. Jones head to Kasikstan to look for the missing reels in Orson Welles...

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