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Top 5: “Once Upon A Time” Films
“Once upon a time” is a staple of story beginnings. This is a list of the best films with “Once upon a time” in the title. Now, there aren’t that many films that fall into that category, but the...
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A Bad Year For Sequels, A Great Year For Film – 1991
1991 saw Leonardo DiCaprio make his film debut in Critters 3, while fellow film rookie, Edward Furlong was being catapulted into super stardom for his role in Terminator 2. Who would have thought then...
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A Great Year in Film – 1957
Well, as one might say, film techniques may become dated, but their messages do not. 1957 was a year perhaps un-extraordinary in most categories. In the US, Eisenhower was president, the Cold War was...
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Top 10 “I’m So Hungry I Can Eat A…” Scenes
This Thanksgiving when you’re sitting around the dinner table slowly working your way into a food coma of turkey and wine take a moment to give thanks to all the great cinematic food-eating scenes that...
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“I’m as Mad as Hell, and I’m Not Going to Take This Anymore!” 10 Films for...
As a San Francisco native I am damn proud of our local occupation and excited to see the movement grow and spread throughout the world. The fact is that we are mad as hell, and we’re not going to take...
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Filmbalaya’s Top 15 Films of 2011
Well, folks, it’s about that time again. The new year has come, and it is up to us to tell you what the best movies were last year because, let’s face it, we’d hate to force you to think for...
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Top 10 Movies From The First Half of 2012
June is here, which means so is my birthday, and as a birthday gift to myself I’m going to make another list. Hooray for lists! June also means that we are half-way through another year and that it’s...
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Filmbalaya’s top 15 Films of 2012
2012 in film was all over the place. Films we wanted to love left us heartbroken and films we wanted nothing to do with ended up holding a spot in our hearts. I hate to say it was a disappointing...
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20 Great Horror Films For This Halloween
With Halloween coming up it only seems right to snuggle up and get some screams coming out of the TV screen. But if you’re like me you get a little tired of watching the same slasher sequels year after...
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10 Songs That Did Better Than the Movie
Good movies are almost always accompanied by equally memorable soundtracks. After 21 years, “I Will Always Love You” – still Whitney Houston’s finest moment – will continue to invoke memories of The...
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An Unorthodox Rating of All 23 James Bond Films
I’ve been a James Bond fan all my life, which can sometimes be a tough love situation. Loosely based on Ian Fleming’s callous and amoral British spy, the amorphous film series has gone through six...
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The Best and Worst of 2013
Yep, yet another “best of” list. It’s the end of the year, which means it’s time for me to share with the movie nerds webwide what I thought was the best this year had to offer in cinema. This is not...
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Top 15 Films of 2013
I know, we’re almost a quarter of the way into 2014, but hey, better late than never, right? Follow the jump to see the films I thought were the best of 2013, in alphabetical order of course. Also,...
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It’s Pi Day! Time for a Pi list
In case you haven’t noticed yet, today is March 14th (3.14) which means it’s Pi day. I’m sure that mathematicians the world over are no doubt celebrating in the geekiest of ways possible, ways this...
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7 Lesser-Known San Francisco Films
I recently wrote an article for the magazine 7×7 on some lesser-known classic films that San Francisco has to offer. (The article could be read in full by clicking anywhere in the following paragraph.)...
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Yep, Another “Best of” List: The Best and Worst of 2014
Well, it’s time once again for me to share with the movie nerds webwide what I thought was the best that 2014 had to offer in cinema. This is not our Top 15 movies of the year list. This post is just...
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Filmbalaya’s Top 15 Films of 2014
Well, folks, it’s about that time again. The new year has come, and it is up to us to tell you what the best movies were last year because, let’s face it, we’d hate to force you to think for yourself....
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