2005 was a year that exists for me as a phantom. I know I went to the movies that year. Do I remember them? Well I thought I didn't. I thought when I went I was usually bored. And I was wrong. A lot of interesting films hit in 2005. Time to celebrate them. The [...]
2007 is to the serious film what 2008 was to the blockbuster. It was an all-time great year for serious films. And I'm about to overlook them almost entirely. 2007 was a great year for serious films but audiences gave them a wide berth. Let's see what they saw instead. The Bottom 25 #76. The [...]
2006 has been a year of fascination for me for some time due to a healthy amount of Cinematour photos taken this year. I remember that more than I remember most of these films. I don't cover the middle 50 but I could play real or fake with half of them. This was a weirdly [...]
Why am I so fascinated by the box office? I know it's meaningless. Box office only measures how well an ad department did its job. In truth, what really matters is when 10-20 years later a film is still talked about. The box office provides a perfect snapshot of both the films that would last [...]
