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As far as crime movies go, 1990's "Goodfellas" remains the gold standard as one of the best mob movies ever made. The film offered a more humanistic perspective into the world of organized crime through the eyes of aspiring mobster Henry Hill (Ray Liotta). With this focus, "Goodfellas" offered a look at how the dangers and vices of crime impacted domestic lives, influencing the entire genre. Fortunately, for fans of "Goodfellas," there are plenty of crime movies to check out that share similar themes and sensibilities.

From sagas spanning generations of mobster families to classic rises to illicit power, there are countless crime movies like "Goodfellas." Many of these movies even share major cast members and the behind-the-scenes crew, bringing another level to these visible similarities. While each of these crime films stand proudly on their own, they also share DNA with Martin Scorsese's 1990 enduring crime story. 

Here are the 15 best movies like "Goodfellas.

One of Christopher Nolan’s most intriguing comments on “Tenet”’s ill-fated 2020 press tour unveiled the mode of inspiration for his time-swerving spy thriller. He wanted to collate the tropes of the sub-genre from his memory and recollections of film viewings past, hoping the mental results would result in a spy movie urtext — an espionage flick composed of the most profound elements of all other espionage flicks. Concluding the thought, he cited Sergio Leone’s “Once Upon a Time in the West” as an example of the same kind of approach, but with classic Hollywood westerns.

If “Tenet” was some kind of definitive arabesque on the spy movie, it would make a fine double bill at a classy cinematheque with “Reflection in a Dead Diamond,” which has just premiered in competition at the Berlinale. Co-directed by the artsy genre specialists Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani, the film shuffles a myriad of spy thriller trademarks,...

When Clint Eastwood became a familiar face to U.S. television viewers via his portrayal of ramrod Rowdy Yates in the CBS Western drama "Rawhide," no one save for maybe his mother saw his handsome mug on their television screen and said, "This man is going to be a transformational figure in motion pictures." No one could've predicted that he'd fly to Spain during his 1964 hiatus from "Rawhide" and make a one-of-a-kind Western with an upstart Italian director named Sergio Leone, thus launching an entire subgenre that would turn him into an international movie star. They certainly couldn't have guessed that he'd also redefine the cop film as a due-process-flouting hardass named Harry Callahan. And then to become a celebrated filmmaker in his own right? Crazy talk.

Clint Eastwood has defied expectations and categorization. At the moment that he was riding high on Westerns and his Dirty Harry persona, he...

Last month, Flow received two Oscar nominations for Best Animated Feature and Best International Feature, which filmmaker Gints Zilbalodis now calls “a nice surprise.” To “relieve [his] stress” that morning when the noms were being announcement live, “it helped to pet [his] dog,” he recalls with a smile.

The Latvian movie contains no dialogue as it follows the journey of a small black cat who becomes displaced from its home after an end-of-days-type flood. The feline doesn’t have an official name, though Zilbalodis enjoys that some fans have started calling it “Flow.” Along the way, the cat learns to work together with a quirky group of strangers in order to survive the elements. Flow recently won the Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature and two Annie Awards for Best Independent Feature and Best Writing.

In his home country, “Everyone is following every single bit of news that comes out of this awards season,...

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Batman has one of the most enviable ensembles of recurring villains in superhero comics. Look back at the 1960s "Batman" TV series starring Adam West, though, and not a lot of those now familiar evildoers are there.

Oh, for sure, the Joker (Cesar Romero), the Riddler, Catwoman, and the Penguin (Burgess Meredith) all frequently guest star. It's because of the West series that this crew was long considered the Big Four of Batman villains; it's no coincidence that they were also the first four villains to star in the Tim Burton/Joel Schumacher-directed "Batman" films.

Then you had some other comic villains, like Mr. Freeze and the Mad Hatter, put in a few appearances too. But many episodes of "Batman" instead had West's Caped Crusader and Robin (Burt Ward) face villains created specifically for the show, including wannabe pharoah...

The Gold Rush of 1849 caused thousands of people to flee the Eastern part of the United States and head west to seek easy money, dug up out of the ground. A lot of the lands Americans were infiltrating weren't being overseen by any kind of widely recognized law, and the boomtowns that hastily formed kind of had to make up their infrastructure as they went along. A whole new world formed: the Wild West. 

American writers of fiction were telling tales of the "Great American Frontier" as early as the 1820s (some bibliophiles may be familiar with the works of James Fenimore Cooper), but the Western literary genre began to explode in the late 1850s and 1860s. Pulp novels began to proliferate across the country, and the "penny dreadfuls" invented a lot of the icons and trappings we see in Westerns to this day: gunslingers, bounty hunters, lawmen, etc. Real-life...

Originally intended to be a single film, Quentin Tarantino’s sprawling revenge epic Kill Bill was split into two parts by Miramax for ease of theatrical distribution. But if the bifurcation was imposed on the director, the split nonetheless draws attention to the stark difference in style and tone between each part. With the benefit of hindsight, however, it’s easy to see the division between the films as the line of demarcation separating Tarantino’s early career from his more measured, even mature second phase.

Kill Bill: Vol. 1, released in 2003, represents the aesthetic and tonal pinnacle of Tarantino’s juvenile cinephile side. The Bride (Uma Thurman), a former member of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad, is ambushed on her wedding day by the members of her former gang and its ringleader—and the Bride’s ex-lover—Bill (David Carradine), who promptly slaughter the guests and groom and leave the pregnant heroine comatose.

One of the most successful actors and directors that the world has ever witnessed, Clint Eastwood remains a pop-culture icon even at the age of 94. Bursting onto the scene with his ice-cool breakout turn in Sergio Leone's Dollars trilogy, Eastwood would go on to cement his status as cinema's quintessential badass with his bow as anti-hero cop Harry Callahan in the wildly popular Dirty Harry movie series. Complementing his best movie character roles with a string of acclaimed directorial efforts over the years, the American also boasts four Academy Award wins from 11 nominations.

A Western icon, many of Eastwood's best movies take place within the genre he made his name in. However, the actor has also demonstrated a penchant for starring in or directing a number of prominent war movies throughout his career. Typically bringing his accomplished style of film making to the table with great effect, Eastwood's performances,...

In 1967, Clint Eastwood's career took off overnight with the U.S. theatrical releases of "A Fistful of Dollars," "For a Few Dollars More" and "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly." This trilogy of newfangled Spaghetti Westerns directed by the brilliant Sergio Leone transformed Eastwood from a TV cowboy (as Rowdy Yates on CBS' "Rawhide") to a gunslinging antihero. The genre was reborn, and Eastwood was suddenly John Wayne for the Baby Boomer generation. He expanded his range and bolstered his popularity the following year by genre-hopping from Western "Hang 'Em High" to cop flick "Coogan's Bluff" to World War II spy thriller "Where Eagles Dare." By the time 1969 rolled around, he could do just about anything — and he did the unexpected.

Though musicals and traditional Westerns were declining in popularity, Paramount thought it could give them both a jolt by mounting a big-screen adaptation of the popular Alan Jay Lerner...

It is rather difficult to describe “Song of the Bandits”, a wild, exciting mix of historical drama, spectacular actioner, rugged western and comedy. Led by the charismatic Kim Nam-gil, the show is an explosive action/adventure romp through the badlands of the Manchurian wilderness, set against the backdrop of the Japanese colonization of Korea.

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The series mostly takes place in 1920 after the fall of the Joseon Empire and during Japanese occupation. The story centers around Lee Yun (Kim), a Korean native who used to serve in the Japanese military forces and carried out atrocities against defenseless civilians. Wracked by guilt, Lee is seen in the first episode deciding to go to Gando, officially part of China but in reality a lawless place inhabited by many Koreans and scoured by criminals, resistance fighters and Japanese paramilitary forces. There, he soon...

A Fistful of Dollars may have been the film that turned Clint Eastwood into a star, but it's also a clear copy of the earlier released samurai epic, Yojimbo. Before A Fistful of Dollars, Eastwood had found consistent success on television in shows like Rawhide and had appeared in supporting film roles. However, A Fistful of Dollars was his first starring role in a feature film and became the actor's big break. The success of A Fistful of Dollars introduced global audiences to the Spaghetti Western and revitalized the genre, setting the stage for some of the genre's best films.

A few years before A Fistful of Dollars, legendary director Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo became a massive success in Japan before spreading to a global audience. Both films focus on a nameless antihero, with the similarities between the films' plots even leading to a lawsuit from Yojimbo's production company Toho...

The theaters might be full of trash, but the January physical media world is thriving. Each month The A.V. Club does our part to keep you up to date on the best of what’s coming out on Blu-ray and 4K Uhd, which is especially important as streaming services become...

Clint Eastwood's character, the Man with No Name, is one of the most iconic movie characters of all time, appearing in all three films in Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy. Released in the mid-'60s, the trilogy consists of A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, and are among some of the best Westerns ever made. Each movie in the trilogy is a staple of the spaghetti Western genre, and arguably the best films in Clint Eastwood's career.

Though it is considered a trilogy, each film is loosely connected, with Clint Eastwood's Man with No Name being essentially the same character in all of them. Eastwood wasn't the only actor to have a role in more than one film in The Dollars Trilogy, as Sergio Leone reused several others throughout all three movies, understanding the talent he had on hand.

How the team behind the Oscar contender managed to make a three-hour-plus film feel significantly shorter.

David Jancso is so close with filmmakers Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold that the editor has been by the couple’s side for several major milestones over the last decade, from cutting Corbet’s debut film The Childhood of a Leader and Fastvold’s 2020 feature The World to Come to witnessing the early days of Corbet and Fastvold’s daughter’s life in the pair’s Paris apartment.

“I understand what Brady wants, and his visionary approach to filmmaking is something that you just don’t forget,” Jancso tells Gold Derby.

Neither is The Brutalist, Corbet’s acclaimed new film and one of the season’s top awards contenders, with seven Golden Globe Awards nominations including Best Drama, Best Director for Corbet, and Best Screenplay for Corbet and Fastvold. Set in the aftermath of World War II,...

Clint Eastwood's Best Picture-winning Western is getting a new streaming home. Since the 1960s, the American icon has been widely associated with the Western genre. He rose to fame for his roles as the ramrod Rowdy Yates in the Western television series Rawhide and the bounty hunter, the Man with No Name, in director Sergio Leone's Dollars trilogy of spaghetti Westerns, which includes A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

Eastwood capped off the 1960s with the Westerns Hang 'Em High, which was his first starring role in an American movie, and the musical Paint Your Wagon. During the 1970s, Eastwood starred in Two Mules for Sister Sara and Joe Kidd before he began directing his own Westerns in addition to starring, starting with High Plains Drifter and followed by The Outlaw Josey Wales and Pale Rider. In 1992, Eastwood made Unforgiven,...

Clint Eastwood's 2024 movie with a 93% Rotten Tomatoes score, but was buried in theaters, has become a streaming success. Eastwood made his acting debut back in 1955, but broke through with a lead role in the Western series Rawhide and rose to fame in Sergio Leone's Dollars trilogy of spaghetti Westerns during the 1960s. Eastwood became known for much more than Westerns during the 1970s and 1980s, starring as the antihero cop Harry Callahan in five Dirty Harry movies and playing against type in the comedies Every Which Way But Loose and Any Which Way You Can.

In addition to his iconic onscreen roles, Eastwood is just as famous as a filmmaker, making his directorial debut in 1971 with the indie film, Play Misty For Me. Over the years, while a two-time Oscar nominee for acting, Eastwood won Best Director for his 1992 Western Unforgiven and his 2004 boxing drama Million Dollar Baby,...

Martin Scorsese may be revered as one of our greatest living filmmakers, but he has often had to fight tooth and nail to bring his visions to the big screen. This is largely due to the box office. Yes, "Raging Bull," "The King of Comedy," and "Goodfellas" are considered masterpieces, but they were not hits in theatrical release. So when, after being continuously passed over for Academy Award recognition, he set his sights on making his mobbed-up magnum opus "Gangs of New York," just about every studio in town declined to bankroll his dream.

It wasn't like he'd sprung the project on the film industry. Alberto Grimaldi, the renowned Italian producer of classics by Federico Fellini, Sergio Leone, and Bernardo Bertolucci, had taken out an ad announcing the production of the film way back in 1977. But when the New Hollywood revolution died with the bank-breaking failure of Michael Cimino's...

In Savanna and the Mountain, the real villagers of Covas do Barroso in Northern Portugal do battle with Savannah Resources, a real British company looking to turn large areas of their Unesco-protected region into Europe’s largest lithium mine. As moral showdowns go, it’s an easy one to get behind, certainly enough to warrant director Paulo Carneiro presenting his film and their story like a fable: casting locals to play themselves in scripted scenes, and framing the struggle like a pastiche of ’70s Westerns. Not everything clicks, but that relatively novel approach, the urgency of the situation––this conflict began as recently as 2019 and is still ongoing––and Carneiro’s connection to the region build enough goodwill to forgive a few shortcomings.

One particular sticking point is how it allows the viewer to not feel especially complicit. That the laptop I’m typing this on and the phone...

Few movie stars have ever had a more unerring sense of what their fans want than Clint Eastwood. The biggest risk he ever took was, really, no risk at all. Yes, he spent one of his last hiatuses from the CBS Western hit "Rawhide" to make a very different kind of Western with Italian auteur Sergio Leone in "A Fistful of Dollars," but if that film had flopped he still would've be an in-demand television star. Instead, the low-budget, unusually-violent-for-its-time oater became an international hit (three years before its U.S. release in 1967), and made Eastwood look like something of a counterculture trailblazer for how it spit in the face of the traditional Westerns still being made by John Wayne.

Eastwood's stature as arguably the biggest star in Hollywood would be solidified in 1971 when he brandished a 44 Magnum and chased down a thrill-seeking killer in "Dirty Harry." Eastwood would make...

Thanks in large part to Lee Van Cleef, Death Rides A Horse makes for the perfect viewing experience after Clint Eastwood's The Man With No Name trilogy. Although The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly is generally considered the quintessential Clint Eastwood Western, it's far more than just a vehicle for the actor. As indicated by its title, it's really a movie driven by a trio of stars, not just Eastwood. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly wouldn't have worked without the compelling performances offered by Eli Wallach and Lee Van Cleef. The latter is similarly vital to For a Few Dollars More as well.

Lee Van Cleef is in top form in The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, which sees him play the film's villain to sinister perfection. His ruthless yet calm demeanor allows his character - known only by the nickname of "Angel Eyes" in...

The IMDb top-250 is a curious portrait of populist taste. The list is, it's worth remembering, culled only from user ratings on the IMDb website, and, judging by the films on the list, the average IMDb user seems to be a college-age white male with a taste for crime, guns, fantasy, and the ultra-masculine. The top movies on the list all seem to be the types of movies that young men would own posters for, proudly displayed on their dorm room walls. There are many unassailable classics, to be sure, and young teens could easily look to the list as a rudimentary introduction to the world of cinema, but the list seems ... skewed. There's not a lot of variety. It's not curated by a single critic, nor even a panel of critics. It's just a general consensus of the taste of the types of people who like to rate movies on IMDb.

Clint Eastwood owes his career to Westerns. He became a familiar face to American television viewers between 1959 and 1965 as the ramrod Rowdy Yates in the popular CBS series "Rawhide" before venturing off to Spain, where, with Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone, he helped turn the genre on its ear with the Spaghetti Western trilogy of "A Fistful of Dollars," "For a Few Dollars More," and "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly." From that point forward, Eastwood in any kind of Western was a big deal at the box office, which was especially impressive considering that oaters were declining in popularity throughout the 1960s and into the '70s.

Ultimately, even Eastwood couldn't keep the genre afloat. After an impressive run that included "Hang 'Em High," "Two Mules for Sister Sara," "High Plains Drifter," and "The Outlaw Josey Wales," the star only made one proper Western in the 1980s ("Pale Rider...

A passion for acting is something that not every actor in Hollywood can exhibit every day. It takes consistent efforts and a drive for their profession that Clint Eastwood seems to have mastered with his wonderful acting career.

Clint Eastwood has had a rich career in Hollywood | Credits: United Artists

People are so impressed with what Eastwood has done with his movies that even Jason Bourne star Matt Damon is impressed with the veteran director. It’s not an easy task to do a different genre of acting in every project that you get, however, Eastwood has done it all, and for Damon… that is the goal.

Clint Eastwood has done it all

Back in the days of Spaghetti Western movies, Clint Eastwood was the only name you would ever hear in a majority of the movies. In the early 1960s, Eastwood found worldwide fame and acclaim as the silent...

I recently saw a friend in a play about Robin Hood. They performed on a small outdoor stage in the middle of a park, acting with minimal sets and costumes. Still, it was an engaging, funny play, and it even made me a little verklempt to think about the fact that humans have been dressing up in parks to tell each other stories of Robin Hood for hundreds of years. We like to entertain each other, and I think that's neat.

The same goes for Greek mythology. These stories have circulated for millennia, used as moral lessons or to simply pass the time. There's a vast amount of mythology to dive into, but at least in the world of cinema, we tend to tell each other the same few stories over and over again, dressing up in costumes to act out the adventures of Hercules, the trials of Odysseus, or...

In the late 1960s, Paramount Pictures was getting a young-gun makeover with upstart producer Robert Evans taking the reins of the struggling studio. With the New Hollywood movement exploding thanks to provocations like "Bonnie and Clyde" and "Easy Rider," Evans was keen to hire exciting young filmmakers to apply their unique talents to the day's bestsellers. When he hit critical and commercial paydirt with Roman Polanski's "Rosemary's Baby," he turned his attention to another hot novel owned by the studio, one that had the potential to revitalize the gangster film.

Author Mario Puzo hadn't even finished "The Godfather" when Paramount executive Peter Bart offered him $115,000 for the manuscript. His instincts proved spot-on. Within two years of its 1969 publication, "The Godfather" had become a phenomenon, selling in the neighborhood of nine million copies. A feature film adaptation was inevitable. All Evans and Bart had to do was find the right...

The Star Wars franchise has many projects coming, including a new movie trilogy. Along with the movies and The Mandalorian & Grogu, James Mangold is working on a special Star Wars film.

When Disney bought Lucasfilm, Mangold was originally set to direct a Boba Fett movie inspired by Sergio Leone, which later turned into The Book of Boba Fett series. He was also hired to direct and co-write Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.

At Celebration Europe on April 7, 2023, it was confirmed that Mangold would direct a Star Wars film about the origins of the Jedi. The movie, called Dawn of the Jedi, will explore the creation of the Jedi and the discovery of The Force.

Mangold aims for an epic feel, similar to The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur, and used these classic films to convince Lucasfilm’s Kathleen Kennedy of the movie’s potential.

I thought about a biblical epic,...

The Star Wars franchise has many projects in the works, including a new trilogy of movies. In addition to these movies and ‘The Mandalorian & Grogu’, we know that James Mangold is working on a unique Star Wars movie.

After Disney acquired Lucasfilm, James Mangold was initially set to direct a Boba Fett film inspired by Sergio Leone, which later evolved into the series “The Book of Boba Fett.” Mangold was then hired to direct and co-write the final Indiana Jones film, “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.”

At Celebration Europe on April 7, 2023, it was confirmed that Mangold would direct a Star Wars film about the origins of the Jedi. He revealed that the film, titled “Dawn of the Jedi,” would explore the formation and discovery of The Force, aiming for an epic feel similar to “The Ten Commandments” and “Ben-Hur.” Mangold used these classic films to convince Lucasfilm...

Jennifer Connelly started acting at age 12 will a small part in Sergio Leone’s “Once Upon A Time In America” (1984). She achieved mainstream success in Jim Henson’s “Labyrinth” (1985), and shortly after graduated to more adult roles. However, due to her stunning looks she was often relegated to play either the hero’s girlfriend or the main character’s mistress.

She wouldn’t receive widespread critical recognition until “Requiem For A Dream” (2000) and “A Beautiful Mind” (2001), the latter of which would earn her an Oscar, Golden Globe, BAFTA and Critics Choice Award for Best Supporting Actress. While Connelly is still often called upon to play the romantic interest, she has proven herself to be talented and versatile enough to make those characters more complicated.

In addition to her Oscar, Globe and BAFTA success, Connelly earned SAG bids for “A Beautiful Mind” (Actress and Ensemble), an additional Critics Choice nomination for...

Before "Escape from Alcatraz," "Dirty Harry," and his own decades-spanning career as a director, Clint Eastwood starred in Sergio Leone's spaghetti Westerns. While he was still years away from his first directorial work while filming 1964's "A Fistful of Dollars," Eastwood already had a keen understanding of what he wanted from movies, as well as a willingness to speak his mind. This actually led him to rewriting a part of the movie's script. Eastwood explained the reason for this in a 1985 interview with Rolling Stone:   

"The script was very expository, yeah. It was an outrageous story, and I thought there should be much more mystery to the person. I kept telling Sergio. 'In a real A picture, you let the audience think along with the movie; in a B picture, you explain everything.' That was my way of selling my point. For instance, there was a scene...

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This December, Prime Video is bringing you a lot of entertainment, from the much-anticipated sequel film to My Fault to an exciting anthology series based on different video games titled Secret Level. However, for the purposes of this article, we are only including the films that are coming to Prime Video this month and have a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score. So, check out the 7 best films that are coming to Prime Video in December 2024 with a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score.

After Hours (December 1) Rotten Tomatoes Score: 90% Credit – Warner Bros.

After Hours is a dark comedy film directed by Martin Scorsese from a screenplay by Joseph Minion. The 1985 film follows Paul Hackett, an office worker with a set routine, but when one night he breaks that routine to meet a strange woman, he finds himself in several...

Clint Eastwood is a lot of people’s favorite, if not everyone’s, and it’s not just because of his outstanding charms as an actor-cum-director. For decades, the films he has starred in and helmed have left an indelible mark on his audiences, going down as either some of the finest pieces in history or some really controversial ones; but it’s not like the 94-year-old really cares.

That said, while his excellent skills as one of the most legendary veterans in Hollywood are one to appease his audiences, what further leaves his fans in awe of him is his “I don’t care” attitude. While he has received praise, Eastwood has also been at the receiving end of quite some criticism, and throughout it all, he has been as nonchalant about it as ever.

Clint Eastwood. | Credits: Siebbi from Germany / Cca 2.0 / Wikimedia Commons.

This attitude, of course, has...

Clint Eastwood reflects on his 69-year film career in a new interview. Eastwood made his acting debut back in 1955, broke through in the Western TV series Rawhide, and rose to fame as the Man with No Name in Sergio Leone's Dollars trilogy of spaghetti Westerns during the 1960s. He made his directorial debut in 1971 with the indie, Play Misty for Me. Over the years, while a two-time Oscar nominee for acting, Eastwood won Best Director for his 1992 Western Unforgiven and his 2004 boxing drama Million Dollar Baby, both of which also won Best Picture.

During a recent interview with The Metrograph (via IndieWire), Eastwood reflected on his illustrious 69-year filmmaking career. The legendary actor and director said it's up to audiences to decide his legacy, which he doesn't personally reflect on very much. Asked if any of his films have not received the recognition they deserve, Eastwood was hard-pressed to...

When it comes to the cowboy cool of the Western genre, there might not be anyone who's done it better than Clint Eastwood. Sure, there's the Duke, John Wayne, but he brought a different kind of old-school cool to his characters, whereas Eastwood had more of an edge in his heyday. He starred as the Man With No Name in Italian director Sergio Leone's "Dollars" trilogy, cementing himself as a Western legend with very little dialogue and a whole lot of steely glares. He would go on to direct his own films, including his classic 1992 Western "Unforgiven," the morally complex tale of a former outlaw. He's only continued working as an actor and director into his 90s, having released his latest (and possibly last) directorial effort, "Juror #2," in November 2024, and though he's had some ups and downs, he's mostly managed to keep his legendary status as a filmmaker intact.

When it's not getting review bombed by angry fans, IMDb is a fountain of filmic knowledge that has all the answers. Besides being the solution to every movie section at Trivia Night, the Internet Movie Database also has a list of the top 250 films of all time, as decided by Hollywood's toughest judges -- the general audience. It's a ranking that is crammed with unquestionably brilliant films, but it's also a pretty big pile to get through. 240 of these popular picks are all well and good, but let's not kid ourselves. It's the top 10 on the list that are what we always want to get to.

IMDb's top 10 consist of some absolutely essential viewings not just for die-hard cinephiles, but anyone that is in the mood to sit down for a certified banger that hasn't lost its touch. With the youngest entrant on the list being just over a decade old,...

A hallmark of Robert Zemeckis' iconic trio of sci-fi comedy films, the Back to the Future franchise features many running jokes that consistently pop up across the course of the trilogy. The form and delivery of these commonalities vary wildly, from parallel situations and pieces of dialogue to full-on parodies of other pieces of popular culture. Whatever the method of delivery for these running jokes, they all have one thing in common; an innate ability to entertain whoever is watching.

Spread out evenly across the three films, some of these recurring gags are instantly apparent, while others only make themselves obvious upon later viewing. The trilogy is loaded with trivia and Easter Eggs, meaning that it's entirely possible to miss out on every single recurring joke upon first viewing. The trilogy's best running jokes are a key factor in what makes Back to the Future one of the most rewatchable movie series of all time,...

Two of the best Clint Eastwood movies are so memorable in their own right that viewers may have missed that they both tell the same story but in reverse. While Eastwood is best known for appearing in Western movies, he has occasionally branched out into other genres. As an actor and director, Eastwood usually chooses to tell simple stories about complex characters, like Million Dollar Baby's reluctant boxing coach, Frankie Dunn. Eastwood's greatest Western characters tend to be antiheroes, and while Eastwood is instantly recognizable for delivering lines through gritted teeth, his characters are all distinct in subtle ways.

Eastwood ensures that each of his characters has a feature or characteristic that sets them apart, like The Man With No Name's smoking habit and quiet demeanor. Even when his characters are inspired by real people, like Josey Wales, Eastwood ensures that his portrayal is both nuanced and interesting to watch onscreen.

The Italian film-maker overcame the language barrier with his actors by using mime, as revealed in previously unseen photographs

They made their names with A Fistful of Dollars, the first in a series of spaghetti westerns that became classics of 20th-century cinema. But the Italian director Sergio Leone had such a poor grasp of English that, between takes, he would repeatedly rely on the words “watch me” before miming whatever he wanted from his leading man, Clint Eastwood, and his other actors.

Now previously unpublished photographs show him doing just that, acting out particular scenes.

Clint Eastwood's most famous Western movie character is the antihero known as "The Man With No Name," but his breakout role was very different. Eastwood had played small roles in movies and TV shows since 1955, but he found success in a classic old Western TV show. Rawhide portrayed the lives and struggles faced by cattle drovers in the 1860s, and Eastwood appeared in each of its 217 episodes. After Rawhide ended, Eastwood traveled to Europe to play a lead role in a Western movie, which led to a drastic change in his acting career.

Eastwood played The Man With No Name in the Western movie A Fistful of Dollars, which was a critical success with a 98% Rotten Tomatoes rating, and is one of the movies that defined Eastwood's career. The so-called "Dollars Trilogy" all feature The Man With No Name and are considered among Eastwood's best movies, redefining the characters he usually plays.

Clint Eastwood's breakout role was, of course, the Man with No Name in Sergio Leone's 1964 Western classic "A Fistful of Dollars." At the time the movie was released, 17-year-old bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger who had just started a competitive career in his native Austria, far from both Hollywood and Spain's Tabernas Desert where Leone's seminal Western was shot. But the movie, and specifically Eastwood's movie star magnetism, made a big impression on the young Schwarzenegger, who throughout the illustrious career that followed his early bodybuilding days has praised the Hollywood veteran as one of his idols. The "Terminator" star even modeled his post-Governator acting career on Eastwood, telling The Hollywood Reporter in 2011:

"In the future I have to adapt my roles to my age. Clint Eastwood also has done it in the same way. Extreme fighting or shooting is not possible anymore. I want to be...

Critics may not have been fond of this 1980s Chuck Norris Western, but it's one of my guilty pleasures. Norris was part of a wave of action stars to emerge during the 1970s and 1980s, with his roundhouse kicks and trademark beard becoming part of his star persona. The '80s featured some of Chuck Norris' best action movies like the Missing in Action trilogy or, my personal favorite, Code of Silence, but his film career faltered by the time the 1990s arrived. While Norris had a compelling look, he just wasn't that great of an actor.

That's why his most successful movies leaned on his physicality and cut way back on his dialogue. His appearance in The Expendables 2 really exposed this, as the veteran star badly fumbles his own Chuck Norris joke meme. Despite his limits as a performer, I still think Norris made some gems in his career,...

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In Stuart Galbraith IV's invaluable film biography "The Emperor and the Wolf" -- a detailed rundown of the collaborations between director Akira Kurosawa and actor Toshiro Mifune -- Kurosawa was asked about Sergio Leone's Western "A Fistful of Dollars." Kurosawa reportedly said that Leone's film was "a fine movie, but it's my movie." Leone, as cineastes all know, will be able to tell you, ripped off Kurosawa's 1961 film "Yojimbo," pretty much beat-for-beat, to make "A Fistful of Dollars." Toho, the production company that distributed "Yojimbo," sued Leone and the case was settled out of court.

"Yojimbo," for those unlucky enough not to have seen it, is about a nameless ronin (Mifune) who wanders into a remote 1860s village to discover a vicious gang battle raging. It seems two groups of yakuza are fighting over the gambling rights in this town,...

What are the 100 greatest movies of all time? Well, that’s an incredibly difficult question to answer. After all, art is subjective and tastes vary incredibly across the globe. But, I’ve taken on the impossible task and gathered the 100 movies that I think constitute the 100 greatest movies of all time! Take a look below.

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In 1999 acclaimed actor John Malkovich took on the difficult task of playing himself in Spike Jonze’s incredibly bizarre, self-referential comedy. With John Cusack and Cameron Diaz playing against type as bumbling losers who find a doorway into the consciousness of Malkovich, this ground-breaking comedic effort feels fresh and hilarious upon repeated viewings.

Earlier this month, Warner Bros. (barely) released Clint Eastwood‘s 40th film as director, the exquisitely crafted and morally probing courtroom drama “Juror #2.” Like many of Eastwood‘s movies, it somehow feels like both a summation of all that came before it and something new in his oeuvre; it’s filled with the aesthetic preferences and thematic preoccupations that have obsessed him going back to the 1970s, but the abundance of rich visual and philosophical ideas are expressed with more clarity and concision than ever. With nothing to lose and nothing to prove, Eastwood has created a film as clean and fast as one of his 1990s programmers but as wrenching in its internal tensions as masterpieces like “Unforgiven” and “Mystic River.”

This is all in keeping with the overall trajectory of Eastwood’s career, as his filmmaking has grown increasingly confident with each film. Not every experiment has worked — even as an Eastwood partisan,...

James Gunn is a curious figure in popular culture. As a young man, just rising in the film business, Gunn co-wrote the witty and disgusting Troma epic "Tromeo & Juliet" with Lloyd Kaufman, and it featured kinky sex, a bisexual Juliet, cow monsters, mutant penis creatures, and an opening narration by Lemmy from Motörhead. After that, Gunn took the piss out of the superhero genre with "The Specials," a low-low budget film about what superheroes — petty jerks, mostly — do on their day off. He stayed aloft in Hollywood writing the screenplays for two surreal "Scooby-Doo" movies, and Zack Snyder's remake of "Dawn of the Dead" before making his directorial debut in 2006 with "Slither," another gross movie about body-invading worm monsters and wacko mutants.

Gunn then deconstructed superheroes even further with "Super" in 2010, a film that hypothesizes that superheroes are mentally ill and addicted to extreme violence. "Super" is bleak,...

Nicolas Cage is one of our most impressive living actors, and a big part of that is because of his intense love of cinema. He's a true student of the craft, with an obsession for older films that has led him to an extensive knowledge of all the medium has to offer. Cage's passion for his projects has led to him becoming the subject of many memes, mostly using his most over-the-top performances, but the man really knows his stuff. So, when Rotten Tomatoes asked Cage for his five favorite films of all time, he came a little over-prepared, offering his top 13 favorite films instead. He said that he simply couldn't narrow it down to five because "there's different movies for different reasons in different lifetimes," which is the most Nicolas Cage thing he could have said.

The actor often looks back to older cinema for inspiration and compares...

Quentin Tarantino, best known for his supporting turn in "Destiny Turns on the Radio," has never been shy about his taste in movies. Tarantino has long been drawn to aggressively masculine genre films, Westerns, war pictures, martial arts films, and anything one might have seen at a run-down grindhouse theater in 1977. He also likes very terse, tense movies, and has listed Martin Scorsese's "Taxi Driver," William Friedkin's "Sorcerer," and Sergio Leone's "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" as his favorites. He's likewise admitted to having fond feelings for "The Great Escape" (who doesn't?) and thinks very highly of Christopher Nolan's "Dunkirk." It's easy to guess that he similarly loves "Rio Bravo" and "Apocalypse Now," and he often recommends the Sonny Chiba vehicle "The Street Fighter" from 1974.

Despite his tastes, however, Tarantino remains cinematically omnivorous, taking in hundreds of movies a year, sussing out the pop...

Whether playing an outlaw (the Man With No Name of Sergio Leone’s ‘Dollars Trilogy’), a loose-cannon law-enforcer (Dirty Harry) or chronicling the country’s most powerful lawman (J. Edgar), Clint Eastwood has always had a fascination with justice. At 94 years young and on his 40th effort as director, the Hollywood legend with the iconic grimace has now somehow made one of his best films in years.

Like the late, great William Friedkin, who ended his career with 2023’s gripping The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, Eastwood opts for the confines of a courthouse to explore characters and ideas in a sharp, constantly compelling grown-up procedural. This is a riveting examination of what true justice looks like — the kind of straightforwardly entertaining mid-budget legal drama that would have filled a multiplex back in the ’90s.

Working from an original script by Jonathan Abrams — which essentially and inadvertently adapts the classic 1994 Simpsons episode...

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At the dawn of the 1980s, Warner Bros. had two major in-house artists who could do just about anything they wanted. One was a movie star, the other a filmmaking genius, and they couldn't have been more different in aesthetic or temperament.

Clint Eastwood was a television star who found big-screen success by making Spaghetti Westerns in Europe with an upstart named Sergio Leone before becoming the avatar of the angry, Miranda rights-burdened American police officer as "Dirty Harry." Stanley Kubrick was a Bronx born-and-bred autodidact who found his love for filmmaking via photography; after a string of critical successes with "Paths of Glory," "Loilita" and "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb," he was hailed as a visionary for the groundbreaking "2001: A Space Odyssey," upon which he became renowned for his perfectionism and technical boundary pushing.

If there’s a downside to living to 94 and remaining healthy enough to work in Hollywood after being an entertainment icon in seven different decades, it’s that your films become impossible to separate from the arc of your life. A straightforward legal thriller can’t possibly be evaluated on its own terms when it hails from the nonagenarian who played Sergio Leone’s Man with No Name, sold countless .44 Magnums with an invitation to make his day, befriended a monkey in the two stupidest movies of the ‘70s, directed “Unforgiven,” “Letters From Iwo Jima,” “The Bridges of Madison County,” and “Million Dollar Baby,” spoke to an empty chair at the Republican National Convention, and spent the Covid-19 pandemic declaring his admiration for anyone who names his cock Macho.

When Clint Eastwood’s 40th directorial effort, “Juror #2,” premiered at AFI Fest 2024, it was accompanied by the hefty expectations that...

Set to an energetic score reminiscent of your favorite action blockbusters, Vendetta Forever plunges players into an intense first-person shooter experience unlike any other. Developed by the creative minds at Meatspace Interactive, this virtual reality puzzle game showcases their innovative approach to gameplay.

Right from the start, Vendetta Forever establishes a simple yet compelling premise: players can only move by eliminating enemies. Dubbed the “Lo-kill-motion” system, it requires strategic thinking as you teleport to fallen foes, grabbing their weapons in timely John Wick fashion. Movement depends entirely on clever use of the various armaments at your disposal across dozens of bite-sized levels.

Meatspace crafted each environment with cinematic flair, pulling inspiration from all your favorite on-screen gunslingers and vigilantes. One moment finds you blasting pirates aboard a sailing vessel, the next engaging in a knife-throwing duel in a wild western ghost town. Elsewhere, you’ll skydive through a futuristic city...