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By any reasonable critical analysis, The Sound of Music is a terrible movie. With its implausible screenplay, terrible acting, and sugar-shock mawkishness, it has all the earmarks of something that, despite its initial burst of popularity, woul...

The Farrelly Brothers' first two films, Dumb and Dumber and Kingpin, were outrageous, uncouth, bawdy, and unapologetically lowbrow. Their third film, There's Something about Mary, is all of those things and one more: hilarious. I rarely chuckl...

It seems that movie makers have lost the art of creating a good, scary vampire flick. The last such film to grace the screen was probably Fright Night, and that was a decade ago. Since then, the "sensitive" vampire has come into vogue -- a creatu...

It's been more than fifteen years since the release of John Carpenter's Halloween, and ten since Wes Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street. Each, in its own way, was a top-of-the-line horror flick -- a film that relied more on chills and thrills than...