Borat Subsequent Moviefilm While gross-out comedies and sequels, in general, are rarely considered to be “Oscar bait,” Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest stunt has become an awards season hit, with particular acclaim granted to Maria Bakalova for her tour de force performance as Borat’s daughter Tutar. Dallas was one of Borat’s many stops in the film, where he visited the State Fair of Texas and thoroughly embarrassed a local surgeon.
News of the World A heartwarming Tom Hanks-starring vehicle is exactly what awards voters are looking for in a time of crisis, and the historical Western
News of the World is one of Hank’s best recent efforts. Dallas doesn’t come off looking too great in this post-Civil War film; Hanks’ character Captain Kidd visits Dallas where he’s greeted by kidnappers, rioters, and Confederate sympathizers.
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Welcome to “This Week in Genre History,” where Tim Grierson and Will Leitch, the hosts of the
Grierson & Leitch podcast, take turns looking back at the world’s greatest, craziest, most infamous genre movies on the week that they were first released.
No, Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon, the writers behind
Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, weren’t smoking anything when they came up with the title characters of their iconic comedy. “We were not stoned, though everyone thinks we were,” Solomon said last year. “I was not a stoner then. I had a bad experience in college and I had a f ing meltdown because I was such a wimp.”
2020 was a weird year for movies: closed theaters, no Marvel movies, and the new Bond movie and
The Fast and the Furious sequel pushed to 2021.
But limitations on theater attendance not only pushed studios to experiment with their releases, but also allowed some smaller genre movies to attract attention that usually would have been taken by blockbuster franchise films. In other words, 2020 made room for some great new genre movies, and gave viewers more of an opportunity to watch them.
Here are ten of the best sci-fi and horror movies of 2020 (in no particular order), all of which you can watch right now.
Clearly, blockbuster filmmaking is reliant on audiences nostalgia for familiarity, with sequels both beginning and closing the calendar year. The action-comedy sequel
Bad Boys For Life was the last major blockbuster released before COVID-19 forced theaters to shut down, and the recent announcement that the comic book tentpole Wonder Woman 1984 is headed to HBO Max has signaled to many that the future of the theatrical experience is all but over.
However, just because it was a bad year for studios banking on these profits doesn’t mean it was a bad year for sequels. In fact, the eclectic mix of movie franchises that returned to audiences this year shows that Hollywood is turning toward pleasing a lot of different niche groups with sequels tailored to their interests.
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