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Top 10 Rentals - July 2010

Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010

What were you watching last month? Here are July’s best-renting movies at Film is Truth!

A Single Man

  1. A Single Man
  2. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
  3. Shutter Island
  4. The Book of Eli
  5. Alice in Wonderland
  6. Green Zone
  7. Pirate Radio
  8. Sherlock Holmes
  9. Crazy Heart
  10. The Men Who Stare at Goats

Top 10 Rentals - March 2010

Monday, April 5th, 2010

What were you watching last month? Here are March’s best-renting movies at Film is Truth!

The Hurt Locker

  1. The Hurt Locker
  2. A Serious Man
  3. Where the Wild Things Are
  4. Up in the Air
  5. Inglourious Basterds
  6. 2012
  7. Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
  8. District 9
  9. Zombieland
  10. The Informant!

Top Rentals of 2009

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

Here are the 25 best-renting titles for all of 2009.

  1. Burn After Reading
  2. Milk
  3. Vicky Cristina Barcelona
  4. Pineapple Express
  5. Doubt
  6. Slumdog Millionaire
  7. WALL-E
  8. Gran Torino
  9. The Reader
  10. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
  11. Man on Wire
  12. Religulous
  13. Coraline
  14. Choke
  15. Revolutionary Road
  16. Twilight
  17. Watchmen
  18. Rachel Getting Married
  19. W.
  20. Zack and Miri Make a Porno
  21. The Wrestler
  22. Quantum of Solace
  23. Synecdoche, New York
  24. Let the Right One In
  25. The Dark Knight

How many have you seen? What was your favorite?

Bafflement of the Week

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

IMDB.com is reporting that the Farrelly Brothers are making a movie about the Three Stooges…starring Sean Penn, Jim Carrey and Benicio Del Toro.

I am having difficulty wrapping my head around this one.

New Releases and New Arrivals - February 24

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

New Releases:

  • Chris & Don: A Love Story
  • Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder
  • Sex Drive
  • What Just Happened?

New Releases (TV Series):

  • Breaking Bad: Season 1

New Arrivals:

  • Against All Odds
  • Cocktail
  • FTA
  • In the Mouth of Madness
  • Ironweed
  • Masters of the Universe
  • Painted Lady
  • Seven Days in May
  • What Makes Sammy Run?
  • The Whole Shootin’ Match / The King of Texas (Double Feature)

The “I Can Read Movies” Series

Friday, January 30th, 2009

Here is a collection of what the covers to children’s novelizations of movies might look like if they were published in the 1950s. It is pretty great.

Oscar Nominations are in!

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

Best Picture Nominees are The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Frost/Nixon, Milk, The Reader (not even on my radar!), and Slumdog Millionaire. Check out the whole list here.

Metropolis, Rediscovered

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Wow — long-assumed gone forever, a complete version of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis has turned up in Buenos Aires, including over 90 minutes of footage lost for 80 years. Read about it here.

“100 New Classics”

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

Entertainment Weekly has published their list of 100 “New Classics” — the 100 “best” films from the past 25 years. Click here to see the list. It’s hard to argue with their #1 pick.

How many have you seen? Which one is your favorite?

Whoops!

Friday, June 13th, 2008

I just managed to delete a bunch of recent comments. This new version of WordPress has some wildly annoying tics, once of which is that it’s really easy to delete comments without realizing it and with no way to bring them back. If one of your comments was deleted, it’s not becase I’m trying to shut you down — it’s because I screwed up.