PUBLIC MARKS from misspaige with tag film

Here's a collection some of our favorite Snakes on a Plane moments. We hope you like them. If you don't, hey, Snakes on a Plane, man.

Sharon Stone and Catherine Tramell, her Basic Instinct character, have many things in common, and among the first shared trait that's detectable in Basic Instinct 2 is their love for looking directly into the camera.

Mark Conard looks at definitions and the meaning of Film Noir in this excerpt from The Philosophy of Film Noir. A Metaphilm exclusive.

This satirical film about a conscience-challenged tobacco lobbyist has a few glimmers of inspiration but never quite catches fire.

Beneath the film’s “loony” plot and glossy, Technicolor veneer exists a cleverly wrought allegory on the Holocaust that will help to perpetuate the important lessons of that terrible atrocity for audiences old and new.

The earliest known appearance of the "smiley" emoticon, :-), was in an ad for this film in the New York Herald Tribune on 10 March 1953, page 20, columns 4-6. The film opened nationwide, and this ad possibly ran in many newspapers. It read: Today You'll laugh :-) You'll cry :-( You'll love <3 'Lili'" This should not be confused with the graphical yellow "smiley face", which was first drawn by Harvey Ball some 10 years later.

It's been rumored since about March of last year and now it's official - PT Anderson's next film will be THERE WILL BE BLOOD based on the Upton Sinclair novel "Oil!" and starring Daniel Day Lewis

The greatest postmodern art film ever.