Brit Marling (creator/star of OA, Another Earth, Sound of my Voice) put out an in the New York Times today. Female representation in movies has come up a few times in our various review threads so I wanted to share.

I'm with Kyle on this one. How can you hate on the car chase? Throwback to French Connection style car chases and it still rules. This was one of my favorites in high school, but I hadn't watched it since. Happy it was just as entertaining as I remember. Cast is great. Jean Reno was killing it in th...

I thought I would have time but didn't. Skip my selection this round, I'll jump back in when things die down.

Some of these would be great for our other movie thread.

I'll be catching up this weekend. Sorry for the delay.

This is what I got so far: 1. Mad Max: Fury Road 2. The Master 3. Hell or High Water 4. A Separation 5. Moonlight 6. Get Out 7. Parasite 8. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World 9. Whiplash 10. Short Term 12 Honorable Mentions: Irishman, Django, Once Upon a Time, Burning, First Reformed, Blade Runner 2049, Ar...

14 - Kinky Boots
20 - Dear Evan Hanson
21 - Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark

Here are the leftovers:

15 - Disney - Mary Poppins
18 - 1988 Movie - Hairspray
22 - Roald Dahl - Matilda the Musical
23 - 2000 Movie - Billy Elliot the Musical
25 - Elton John - Aida

Congrats Poorpete! Nice job everyone.

Frozen and Mean Girls (2017) are a tad too new to make the list despite both being very popular. The newest one on the list started in 2016. The Harry Potter Broadway show is one of the fastest risers, but it is also too new to make this list (though it will certainly get there sooner rather than la...

Nice round!

6. Book of Mormon
13. Miss Saigon
16. The Producers
24. Spamalot

I'll do two more rounds the close it up.

Updated!

Lion King - 1st
Chicago - 4th
Mamma Mia - 5th

I've added clues for the remaining ones.

Here's a tip, almost every one of these has been adapted to a movie, or was a movie first.

Just box office, and exclusive to Broadway.

Updated. Next round!

Here's the rules: 1- Post up with a Broadway show that you think has the highest total gross (since they started keeping track in 1982). These are not adjusted for inflation. 2- After you make a post- you can only guess again AFTER I HAVE TOLD YOU IF YOU ARE RIGHT AND HAVE AWARDED POINTS. Thus, if y...

Holy hell... there are excellent movies coming out of Korea right now. Hae-Mi dancing to Miles Davis is an iconic movie moment. Talk about a beautiful and emotional scene. It's the only time the camera breaks from Jong-su's point of view. It's an unfiltered, isolated perspective of Hae-mi and her ta...

An antagonist doesn't have to be a villain in the same way a protagonist isn't always a hero. That seems to be the case here. Jimmy is a great antagonist because he attacks Sydney's one weakness, his past. It would be one thing if he was some irrelevant pimp that didn't serve a purpose. But he's an ...

My rankings: There Will Be Blood The Master Punch-Drunk Love Boogie Nights Hard Eight Magnolia (I haven't seen this in 10+ years, really due for a rewatch) Phantom Thread I lied earlier. I forgot I hadn't seen Inherent Vice yet. It's available online and I keep forgetting to watch it. Related note, ...

I have to admit I cheated and picked a movie I hadn't seen. But I did get approval from Buckett first that it didn't suck before picking it. This was the only PTA movie I hadn't seen and had been on my watch list for a while. Crazy how talented PTA is even for his first film. He's always been good w...