Nine Tearjerker Movies Guaranteed To Leave You Bawling
There's nothing wrong with shedding a tear or 20 from time to time — and is there any better place to turn to for a much-needed cry than the movies?
There's nothing wrong with shedding a tear or 20 from time to time — and is there any better place to turn to for a much-needed cry than the movies?
Here's a bit of Marvel movie trivia: without the Star Wars director's "Howard the Duck" movie from the 1980s, the Wachowskis would never have had the technology to make "The Matrix." Here's how one of the biggest flops, wuxia films and wire work started a small revolution.
A lot of coordinated choreography was required to make the scene appear to be one take with no cuts.
"Da 5 Bloods," starring Chadwick Boseman, is about four black veterans returning to Vietnam to find the remains of their deceased squad leader as well as the treasure they've left buried there. "Da 5 Bloods" premieres on Netflix on June 12.
No matter how many times Christopher Nolan assures us his new film, "Tenet," will revive the much-missed cinema-going experience, we must acknowledge that 2020 will be an odd year for summer movies.
If a silly, extra violent, sex-filled comedy about a foul-mouthed, reprehensible action hero straight out of the '80s doesn't sound like a megahit, that's because it wasn't. But over the last 10 years, the absurdity and quotability of "MacGruber" has earned it cult classic status.
Cannes is cancelled this year, but you can still watch the festival's best offerings since its founding, in 1946.
It's the soundtrack, the way you feel the speed of the fighter jets; it's the call names and the clichés; it's the way that Maverick and Iceman constantly chomp at each other ...
This is creepy. This is glorious.
Which fighter pilot nickname from the iconic Tom Cruise movie is best? Here's a hint: It's definitely not "Chipper."
"I had a customer come in and she said, 'I am so grateful that you reopened, because I couldn't flip through Netflix one more time.'"
Cameron dropped cast members Zoe Saldana, Sam Worthington, Kate Winslet, and Cliff Curtis in a giant underwater tank to film sequels to his epic science-fiction film "Avatar" and the shoot looks painful. Here's a short behind-the-scenes look at Disney and 20th Century Studio's big 2021 release.
Jackson McKay put together a supercut of the X-Wing scenes from the Star Wars movies and added Kenny Loggins's "Danger Zone."
Imagine a broad, cheerfully lowbrow big-budget comedy along the lines of "Step Brothers" or "Talladega Nights," but instead of Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly, it stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Christian Bale.
We're never going to be able to hear the lines the same way again after this.
Production was shut down three times, the stars often clashed and studio executives were baffled. Here's how a difficult shoot led to an Oscar-winning masterpiece.
The popularity of 3D movies spiked in the late 2000s. However, the medium seems to have come and gone yet again. How did the 3D movie craze lose its mojo?
Why did the most competitive athlete of his generation spend a summer shooting "Space Jam"? Brand synergy, baby.
American movies, like Netflix's new release 'Extraction,' use a yellow filter when they're set in places like India and Mexico. Here's why it keeps popping up, and why it might be making you uncomfortable.
Nobody in Hollywood is more suited to thriving during lockdown than Robert Pattinson. Assuming he can keep from burning down his kitchen.
Back in 1996, original hits were possible, VFX was on the rise and sequels didn't rule the universe.
There are only two kinds of people in this world. Not good or bad, glass half full or half empty. They are even more telling than other more popular dichotomies. They are the Aragorn Girls and the Legolas Girls.
How 24 pairs of leather pants, a tearaway tutu and red pointe shoes made for a generation's greatest dance movie. The cast and crew of "Center Stage" explain how the iconic ballet film got made.
A Hollywood production came to Ponca City, Oklahoma, in the summer of 1995 to make a movie about the destructive power of tornadoes. It seemed strange to some to tell a story about such a mundane detail of life.
The theme was rejected at that time for being "too dark," and a Sam Smith song was used instead. No offense to Smith, but this one blows "Writing's on the Wall" out of the water.
At various times, Wiseau didn't show up to court, represented himself, produced strange witnesses, and drove the judge up a wall. He was ordered to pay out over $700,000.
The King of Queens… is now a sadistic neo-Nazi who's escaped from jail, and is holding Becky's family hostage? And Becky rigs up a bunch of booby traps to stop him? What is happening?
In the early '90s, Industrial Light & Magic's visual effects crew set out to do something that had never been done, and eventually changed the course of CGI's evolution.
Despite playing one of the most iconic villains in movie history, the nine men who've portrayed Jason Voorhees in the 40 years of the "Friday the 13th" franchise are practically ghosts. This is their story.
Sometimes you really have to go back in the past just to prove your mother wrong.
The new documentary tells the weird and surprisingly uplifting story of Biosphere 2.
For "Blood Quantum" director Jeff Barnaby, record unemployment and rampant disease are nothing new: "It's the way Native people have always lived."
The two-time Oscar winner is joined by his wife and collaborator James Deakins for a full breakdown of his craft.
It seems like a lot of movie extras are just phoning it in as this one astute viewer noticed from this classic film.
After his "Fantastic Four" reboot bombed and life fell apart, Josh Trank came back for more.
In the early 21st century, the rising young British actor was on an incredible run. But one mean joke on the entertainment world's biggest stage permanently changed how we felt about the "Talented Mr. Ripley" star.
There's the Seth Rogen-type hero, and theres' the Hugh Grant archetype.
From Malekith to Loki, we covered them all.
Take it from someone who just watched every single Disney Channel Original Movie on Disney+: You think you want to revisit a Disney Channel Original Movie from your youth. You don't.
As the epic turns 20, Ridley Scott remembers how "Gladiator" was almost as dangerous as the actual arena.
It's the movie we don't need. It's the movie we don't deserve.
Want to know what hitting the theater might be like as the coronavirus stay-at-home orders lift? Texans are starting to find out.
The director will helm a future "Star Wars" feature film, while Leslye Headland will be in charge of an upcoming television series.
From Alderaan to Kijimi, Sith lords sure do love to blast planets to smithereens. So how powerful are Star Wars' doomsday weapons anyway?
In Brian Yuzna's subversive take on the old money vs. new money trope, the rich don't eat the poor — they eat the slightly less rich.
Set over the course of one day, "The Assistant" is a film confronting the #MeToo era with full force. Director Kitty Green unpacks its quiet, stoic power.
From coming-of-age stories to classics from your childhood to a tale of a (literally) killer leather jacket.
Space Jam 2 is now officially titled "Space Jam: A New Legacy," according to an Instagram video from LeBron James himself. Well, a hat on his head really.
Why the conflict over the movie industry's embrace of video on demand reflects a century-long symbiotic relationship gone sour. AMC is just Trollin'.
The provocative "Dark Knight" phrase encapsulated the blockbuster's dark brilliance. But more than a decade later, it's turned into a dismissive shorthand for self-serious event films.
John Williams's iconic "Star Wars" score was one of the key reasons the original trilogy was so successful. "The Rise Of Skywalker" is so bad, this YouTuber argues, that it even ruins the soundtrack.
A father and daughter collaborated together to do a scene-for-scene remake of the dinner sequence from Tim Burton's classic film.
In this edition of Out of the Disney Vault, we take a look at the company's unlikely classic, which just turned 25. This is "A Goofy Movie" revisited.
This is what a movie like "Day After Tomorrow" would have looked like in the 1930s, and it's seriously impressive.
Together, they teach us one crucial thing: you are not a zombie — yet.
The Bollywood star, known for roles in "Slumdog Millionaire" and "Jurassic World," has died aged 53.
Wes Anderson makes lots of movies featuring loners or outcasts estranged from society. Luis Azevedo put together a supercut of many of the filmmaker's various sequences with social distancing.
Nathan Rabin said the trope "exists solely in the fevered imaginations of sensitive writer-directors to teach broodingly soulful young men to embrace life and its infinite mysteries and adventures."
Even though Pixar's bent was to humanize non-human characters, the premise of "Ratatouille" was based on something inherently disgusting: what if a rat made your dinner?
The festival has been canceled due to the coronavirus, but Amazon has made its features, short films and documentaries available to watch for free through May 6th.