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  • foreign female directors
    Sadly, the directing game is still very much a boy's club — if you need proof, take a look at the Oscar nominations. There have only been four female nominees for the Bes...
  • haunted hotels
    A haunted hotel is the perfect location for a horror film, no? Think about it. There is a constant parade of strangers unaware they are lodging in a place of past crimes or...
  • Festivals and Premiered Films
    Here at FilmBuff, we love film festivals. Honestly, we cannot get enough of them! Not only do they showcase great films we might not have gotten to see otherwise, but somet...
  • 5 Biggest film out out of TFF
    The word "big" as it relates to indie movies, particularly those premiering at film festivals, is more a relative term than anything else; most of the five movies on this l...
  • TFF do you know
    A lot of fantastic movies have come out of the Tribeca Film Festival...and then a lot of fantastic movies just sort of sit there, waiting to be seen. You may have heard of ...
  • Film excitement
    The 2012 Tribeca Film Festival is set to kick off today and will run through April 29 in New York City. The festival is a yearly delight for New Yorkers and 'Buffs everywhe...
  • suvival cinema
    Romance is out, survival is in. That's what we've learned from the crushing success of The Hunger Games, anyway. The flick, based on the first of Suzanne Collins' ...
  • bad film, great director
    We love it when our favorite filmmakers succeed, but if we are completely honest with ourselves, we love it when they stumble a bit, too. We think it not only humbles them,...
  • Teen movies
    Regardless of what your parents told you, every one of us was a teenager once. Some of you might still be teenagers. Some of you, although we shudder to think of it, might ...
  • nerd pleasures
    Here at FilmBuff, we're privy to a lot of industry secrets, and we'd like to let you, our lucky readers, in on the one of the most important secrets in Hollywood. Come clos...
  • explotation rehabilitation
    Exploitation. It’s a word so stigmatized that it makes you wonder whether you really enjoy it. We’re here to tell you that duh…you can…obviously…get watching. Whe...
  • Guilty Elvis
    An Elvis film has many requisite elements of a guilty pleasure movie: spontaneous dance sequences, minimal plot and an irresistibly handsome, crooning male lead. Sure, the ...
  • NY's Best SNL Movis
    Each week, the cast of Saturday Night Live brings the funny with a slew of short sketches. Every once in a while, over the course of the series' phenomenally long ...
  • 100YOE
    Today we happily present a Guest Collection from the filmmakers behind 100 Years Of Evil: Erik Eger, Magnus Oliv and Joacim Starander. These Swedes are a diverse t...
  • Reel history
    Revisionism isn’t always a bad thing. In film, it’s used as a productive narrative device. And in theory, it’s easy to do: take an important historical event, and im...
  • B-movie
    The logic of movie making seems pretty straightforward. Making a bad movie is easy. Making a great movie is difficult. But what about making a movie that's so bad it's grea...
  • Silvet to tv
    We love action heroes. When you’re a kid, it starts with superheroes. You see them everywhere: from cartoons to comics. Then we hit the PG-13 age, which exposes us to Mic...
  • sci-fi experiments
    Science fiction is, by its very nature, a kind of experiment. It's an experiment of narrative and story. But some sci-fi movies take things a step further. Some sci-fi movi...
  • hig concept films
    There are as many definitions of the phrase “high concept” as there are film buffs, but the easiest way to identify a high concept movie is by asking yourself the "What...
  • nonexperimental
    We know it’s only your friends who have this problem: symptoms of experimental cinema-phobia. And seeing these symptoms are plain to any movie lover trying to get their ...
  • Boheme feeling
    Today FilmBuff presents a guest collection from Diane Paragas, one of the co-directors of Brooklyn Boheme. Diane is an award winning documentarian and has directed...
  • turturro
    Fellow Buffs, please welcome John Turturro as he presents a very special collection with us. Turturro may be best recognized by mainstream movie lovers for his performances...
  • documentaries
    The current global financial crisis, a.k.a the Great Recession, is widely viewed as the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. It resulted in the u...
  • PREPARE FOR THE APOCALYPSE
    Look, we’re not morbid, paranoid freaks. We’re just pragmatic about human nature… as a result, we think it’s a good idea to prepare for a potential (read: the comin...
  • Comedians-Are-Really-Sad
    All comedians are sad. Really, really sad. Didn’t you know that? It’s one of the great clichés of the entertainment world— a comedian’s capacity for laughter and j...
  • Films-That-Turn-It-Up-to-11
    I am not what one would call “musically inclined.” I do not have “fine motor skills.” I can’t get “my fingers to hit the right string on the guitar.” I do n...
  • Parallel Universes Get Creepy
    It’s hard enough dealing with one universe with all the stars, moons and things orbiting. Plus the fact an asteroid could just come hurling at our planet at any moment an...
  • Fall-in-Love-with-Love
    In our reality TV-filled culture of Jersey Shore jerks and floozies, we often forget that there was once a time when men were gentlemen and women were ladies. A time when l...
  • Films-To-Make-You-Geek-Out
    Geek movies are typically within the sci-fi genre – “Star Wars”, “Serenity”, “Back to the Future” etc. If you Google, “list of geek movies” you get about...
  • Films Featuring Kick Ass Women
    If you’re anything like me then you are tired of seeing “damsels in distress” on the big screen. Recent films like Spiderman and King Kong always feature a female lov...
  • Your-Family-Seem-Normal
    Most families are boring. Maybe someone is gay, but that’s about as dicey as things often get. Typically, dad is in business and mom might work in an office supply store ...
  • Promo--Romance-is-Dead
    Is there anyone left who still believes in romance? I’m not even talking about flowers and strolls—I’m just talking about the simple romance of falling in love and st...
  • 5 Black & White That Won't Put You To Sleep
    There is this preconceived notion out there that Black & White films are generally boring and slow. Do you notice this? Lots of people almost instantaneously dismiss a mo...
  • Sports-Movies-for-People Who Hate Sports
    Ok, so we enjoy watching, reading about, and participating in sports. A few of us are even the type to sit in a tattered t-shirt stained with snacks eaten while watching c...
  • We-Got-Lazy-Promo_better
    All hail the Slackers! You know who you are you tie-die wearing, couch surfing, cheese puff eating, “I’ll do it tomorrow” saying vagabonds. I say all of this with g...
  • EMMA STONE COLLECTION IMAGE
    The FilmBuff community has had its eye on Emma Stone. With her upcoming role in the new Spider-Man and her revamped image released to the world via the 2011 Golden Globes, ...
  • PhilipGlassPROMO
    Known to some as a minimalist, some as a classicist, and others just as a film composer, Philip Glass has probably done more to define American music in the late 20th and e...
  • BEST DITCH DAY FLIMS
    You’ve created the perfect plan, an infallible excuse, a design of sheer genius and somehow, someway, your cunning ways have earned you a Ditch Day. You want something fr...
  • ARITIST ON SET Promo
    Here are 5 films with an unexpected twist. Each film was made in the company of an accomplished artist. Taking the collaborative spirit of film-making to the next level, th...
  • DrugsAreBad Promo Image
    Drug use is seen almost all the time in movies and television. Many times they show the lighter side of drug use, you know movies like “Half Baked” where smoking reefe...
  • 5FilmsFrom5Cities
    One of the most interesting experiences that film provides is access to places and cultures that we, as static beings by nature, are unable to witness otherwise. FilmBuff l...
  • gamers_tech_heads
    Where would we all be if the world did not have its fair share of video game playing technology lovers? The prospect of that is just plain too scary to answer. Who would ...
  • foodies
    Some people are pragmatic about food; others have elevated it into an art. The folks in Hollywood are firmly in the latter pack. In fact, they have done more to romanticize...
  • dose_of_drama
    Almost everyone loves to watch a truly funny and hilarious film. They are easily the most likeable kind of film out there. Who doesn’t like to laugh? Even crazy and un...
  • epic_lengths
    People nowadays simply do not have long attention spans. Rare are the likes of songs lasting longer than 5 minutes. People now just cannot get themselves to sit still with...
  • crazy_camera
    For some movies, it’s all about the camera and how it captures a moment. That sounded very deep—let me explain: crazy or unique camera angles can create a wild viewing ...
  • TantalizingFilmsPromo
    If you prefer by-the-book, sell-out, typical Story A and Story B type movies, skip passed this section. These are stories you haven’t heard yet, and the way these stories...
  • on_the_short_side
    When you hear that a movie is less than 90 minutes long, do you sometimes think it’s going to be awful? Or a boring documentary? That’s completely understandable, becau...
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Brad Pitt: The Lone Member of the Snack Pack

Brad Pitt has a new movie coming out today. Moneyball. Its the Pitt passion project (alliteration bonus points). And there’s already Oscar buzz all around the ‘net. No offense to Oscar, but we think Pitt is already outside the confines of needing his accolades. Pitt happens to have a talent uniquely his…he is the only actor in history that can eat on screen while speaking and still be considered a sex symbol. Allow us to illustrate that for you…

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