Turning The Tables: The 150 Greatest Albums Made By Women Oumou Sangare performs at the Africa Music festival in Delft, Netherlands, in August 1993. Frans Schellekens/Redferns/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Frans Schellekens/Redferns/Getty Images Oumou Sangare performs at the Africa Music festival in Delft, Netherlands, in August 1993. This list, of the greatest albums made by women between 1964 and the present, is an intervention, a remedy, a correction of the historical record and hopefully the start of a new conversation. 150. In the late 1970s, women across America sat in circles, speaking and listening intently. 149. Alicia Keys graduated from high school at age 16 with a scholarship to Columbia University. 148. Some will say jazz, in a word, is improvisation. 147. In the early 1980s, when so much in the "new music" realm sounded jarring and almost self-consciously difficult, Meredith Monk took a different tack with Dolmen Music. 146. Today, Patty Griffin is best known as an all-time great American singer-songwriter. 145. 144.
Summer 2017's best movies: from Scarlett Johansson's hen night to Morrissey's teen years | Film Churchill The first of the year’s two biopics about Sir Winston. The autumn will see Gary Oldman offering blood, sweat, tears and toil in Darkest Hour, but this take on the great man focuses on a less glorious period in his life: the run-up to D-day, when his misgivings about the invasion of Normandy were swept aside. Brian Cox makes for an impressively fragile, self-doubting Churchill, approaching his own political Waterloo at the 1945 general election. • 16 June in UK; out now in US and Australia. Whitney: Can I Be Me Nick Broomfield gives Whitney Houston the Amy treatment in a documentary that traces the singer’s remarkable rise and premature demise. The Graduate: 50th Anniversary 4k Restoration Half a century on, Mike Nichols’ fable of suburban angst and inter-generational alienation looks just as relevant in its anatomy of a directionless, self-involved twentysomething baffled by life. Edith Walks Okja Baby Driver Risk Despicable Me 3 Spider-Man: Homecoming (3D) Song to Song The Beguiled
Best and Worst Best Pictures << Rotten Tomatoes – Movie and TV News Every year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presents a golden statue to the film representing cinema’s best. And every year, Rotten Tomatoes revisits every Best Picture winner of Oscars past — from the classics (Casablanca) to the dubious selections (The Greatest Show on Earth) — sorting them by the strict and rigorous standards of Tomatometer science. How does this year’s winner, Moonlight, stack up against the competition? Adjusted Score: 37.777% Critics Consensus: The Broadway Melody is interesting as an example of an early Hollywood musical, but otherwise, it's essentially bereft of appeal for modern audiences. Synopsis: This landmark MGM backstage musical of the early sound era about broken dreams on the Great White Way features a... Adjusted Score: 48.709% Critics Consensus: The Greatest Show on Earth is melodramatic, short on plot, excessively lengthy and bogged down with clichés, but not without a certain innocent charm. Synopsis: Cecil B. Adjusted Score: 54.714%
The 50 top films of 2017 in the US: No 2 The Florida Project | Film The two arenas of adult disillusion and children’s enchantment make up the gorgeous world of The Florida Project from director Sean Baker, a film set in a budget motel for long-stay welfare claimants and their families. It’s within driving distance of Disney World, in a maze of freeways, parking lots, malls, waste ground and Florida’s beautiful unofficial countryside – but in every important respect, it’s light years away from the worlds of Disneyfied leisure, corporate prosperity and respectability. In theory, the motel is designed for people who are on holiday, but in practice the adult residents’ lives are anything but a vacation. When actual honeymooners find themselves accidentally booked in there, their horrified astonishment and disgust is almost palpable. The kids who live there love it: they really are purely at leisure. Bobby is the motel’s harassed but gentle and caring manager-slash-odd-job guy – a tremendous performance from Willem Dafoe. Bobby loves the kids. (Buy here)
‘Star Trek’: Best Movies and TV Shows, Ranked | IndieWire Beyond the 19 films and TV shows that make up official on-screen “Star Trek” canon, there are quite a few more efforts that could, philosophically, be a part of this list. There’s the rich legacy of officially licensed novels and comic books that brought the characters to life in print form. There’s the technology invented by production designers that eventually became real-life wizardry. READ MORE: ‘Star Trek’ Wants to Regulate Fan Culture, But It’s Not Going to Be Easy There are the vibrant fan communities that, even during the franchise’s many dormant periods, ensured that “Star Trek” would never actually die. Thus, we seek balance. Hopefully, Kirk and Spock (in all of their many iterations) would approve. 19. So badly executed that it brought the “Next Generation” film franchise to a grinding halt, “Star Trek: Nemesis” does a lot of bizarre things to these beloved characters: Picard becomes an adrenaline-fueled action hero. 18. “Enterprise” tried. 17. Leaving aside J.J. 16. 15. 14.
Best Sci-Fi Movies on Netflix Director: John Carpenter Writer: John Carpenter, Debra Hill, Kurt Russell Cast: Kurt Russell, Steve Buscemi, Georges Corraface, Peter Fonda, Cliff Robertson, Valeria Golino, Pam Grier, A.J. Langer, Stacy Keach, Bruce Campbell, and Michelle Forbes Where Escape from New York was a precisely cut, stylish science fiction classic – politically subversive, serious-minded in its conception, and vibrantly inventive in its imagery – Escape from L.A. seems more purposefully cheeky and cheap. This isn’t to say that the second mission by Snake Pliskin (Kurt Russell) isn’t encoded with John Carpenter’s particular brand of leftist politics, but it’s delivered in a far more bombastic aesthetic, the dark greys and blues of the first film traded in for yellows, oranges, and reds.
The 50 best movies of all time By Ben Taylor, Graphiq Posted: 05/20/2016 06:06:51 AM PDT | Updated: a day ago Ask 100 people to name their top five movies, and you'll get 100 different answers. Combine all those individual opinions into a single list, however, and you'll likely wind up with a ranking much like the one below. At PrettyFamous, an entertainment site from Graphiq, we set out to determine a consensus ranking of best movies. 1. *We also included a slight adjustment for inflation-adjusted box office gross. Using these figures, we calculated a single score out of 100 for every film in our database, normalized such that the top film received a perfect 100/100. Notes: Films without a Metacritic Metascore were not penalized. Classics in the Top 10, Modern Films After Classic, influential films dominate the top 10. Outside the top 10, however, films from the '90s and '00s dominate the list. Are viewers more likely to praise recent movies, or are films simply getting better? Pixar's Dominance Drama, Adventure, Fantasy
50 Best Foreign Films of All Time Ranked and Reviewed Making the case for Italy's Michelangelo Antonioni will never be easy—he's a director who, very deliberately, told stories about how modern life robs your soul. And when his breakthrough film screened for the cognoscenti at Cannes, it was both applauded and ferociously booed. The booers were wrong. Pinned to its rough scenario about a yachting group of friends were the stirrings of a new cinematic vibration, that of onscreen detachment, fashionable flirtation and spiritual ennui. One of the vacationers goes missing, then the movie itself loses curiosity in the mystery, heightening our own sense of alarm. Antonioni, a proud feminist, loved his women, and the glorious Monica Vitti, starring out of her sadness, became a Mad Men–worthy icon of 1960s loneliness. Watch on Amazon Instant Video
10 Thrilling Movies Based On True-Life Survival Stories In the last century, Hollywood has pumped out a number of amazing and captivating survival stories, and while many of the fictional ones are incredibly impressive, it’s the ones that are based on a true story that carry an extra spark. In the imagination, one can think of a person surviving through just about everything anything, but it means a lot more when you watch someone go through ungodly trials and then find out those events happened to a real individual. In the past few weeks, audiences have been going in droves to see one such film - Alejandro G. Inarritu’s The Revenant - so we figured that we’d take a moment to reflect on some of the great true story-inspired survival stories that have been adapted for the cinematic experience. Did your favorite make the cut? The Revenant Let’s start off with the film that inspired this list, shall we? Alejandro G.