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The meaning behind the title of Björk’s 1995 album Post is twofold. The album was, of course, a postscript to 1993’s Debut, the singer’s first solo effort following the dissolution of her band the Sugarcubes, but it was also designed as a mixtape of messages to friends and family back in Iceland. The blazer Björk dons on the album’s cover, photographed by legendary shutterbug and frequent collaborator Stéphane Sednaoui, was created by British fashion designer Hussein Chalayan and made out of waterproof envelope paper bearing the markings of the Royal Mail.

Each song on Post has a distinct sound—trip-hop bumps up against house, industrial rock, and jazz—and an intended recipient. The grimy “Army of Me” is a kick in the pants to Björk’s little brother; the subterranean “Enjoy” is a love letter to London; the dubby “Possibly Maybe” is a farewell to Sednaoui, whom she...

Whether they’re symbols of purity, sarcastic sidekicks, or straight-up murder targets, unicorns have pranced their way into some of cinema’s most memorable moments. Sometimes they’re majestic and wise, sometimes they’re total divas, and sometimes they’re just there to be hunted by some evil king with serious control issues. From animated classics to bizarre indie flicks, unicorns have proven that they can be more than just Lisa Frank stickers brought to life. On the occasion of the release of Death of a Unicorn, we’re diving into the most famous unicorns ever to grace the big screen—whether they’re noble and heroic, tragically misunderstood, or just straight-up weird. Alexa Camp

Fantasia (1940)

Fantasia only seems about as great as the particular segment you happen to be watching in the moment, but it’s is also one of the few Disney movies whose outsized aims marinate tastefully in memory instead of festering.

As chronicled in Michaelangelo Matos’s Can’t Slow Down: How 1984 Became Pop’s Blockbuster Year, pop music as a cultural force was already reaching new and unheralded heights as 1984 got underway. That was thanks not only to the resurgence of the blockbuster album, but also the sea change caused by the birth of MTV, and the emergence of Michael Jackson, Madonna, and others as avatars for the cable network’s new confluence of music, filmmaking, style, and celebrity into arguably the decade’s most powerful cultural flame-thrower.

And then there was Prince, who commanded, “Take a picture, sweetie! I ain’t got time to waste!” Even as the artist’s death in 2016 cemented his reputation as one of rock’s all-time legends, it’s still easy to underestimate how massive the impact of Purple Rain was upon its arrival in the summer of 1984, especially as its key tracks have...

Normally this is the part where we take you on a brief temperature check on—if not philosophical flight of fancy over—the state of the movie industry and how that will factor into what’s occupying most of the real estate in Oscar voters’ heads. We usually delve into why in fact the whole annual spectacle serves just about anything but the purported task of rewarding the previous year’s best cinematic work. How does Parasite represent the best-case scenario for a more international AMPAS? Does Tár surgically unpack our anxieties about representation, or does it just exploit them? Why Green Book, why now? But seeing how Mark Harris, in this weekend’s New York Times, pretty thoroughly wrapped up that legwork this go-around, and recognizing that there’s only so many angles we can take to argue the functional utility that Oppenheimer has market-cornered in this year’s race,...

Hollywood reeled in 2023. There’s no way around that. From striking creatives to the existential crisis of theatrical futures, this year held the entire entertainment industry in its death-like grasp. But as they say, when the going gets tough, the tough double down on the audience least likely to abandon ship. And anyone who’s actually sat and counted how many annual horror conventions there are knows exactly which audience to bet on.

It’s entirely possible that horror is the most stable and reliable movie genre, but just because its demographic is almost certainly the most voracious doesn’t mean they’re the least discerning. If anything, the list of films that almost made our top 10 would alone be ample ballast for the argument that horror aficionados cast their nets wider than fans of other genres. Take this list as a starting point, and then take it way further than you ever dared.

It wasn’t just the behemoth of Barbenheimer that had critics and film nerds alike wearing out every variation of the maxim “Movies are back, baby!” While a glance at any of our past year-end film roundups easily puts the lie to the notion that the movies ever meaningfully “went away,” it’s also true that 2023 had something to offer just about everyone with a generosity that feels like a throwback. The idea of movies as a zeitgeisty, mass-appeal art form didn’t just get a stay of execution in 2023—it flourished with the vibrancy of a brand-new medium, even as most of those heralding cinema’s resurgence to cultural dominance were subconsciously doing so under the regressive guise of returning to “the way things used to be.”

The buy-in came not only from the perpetually undernourished Marvel fanboys, but also from those of us who, thanks to a series of high-profile financial wipeouts,...

The notion that, 40 years ago, Madonna was a shooting star predestined for the stratosphere is the stuff of pop music myth. The then-twentysomething singer’s demo tape, which included early versions of classics like “Everybody” and “Burning Up,” was rebuffed multiple times before she finally landed a deal with Sire Records, best known for punk and new wave acts like Talking Heads and the Ramones. Madonna became the label’s flagship act, thanks to the slow-burning success of her self-titled album, which finally hit the Top 10 more than a year after its debut and would go on to spend a staggering 165 consecutive weeks on the Billboard chart.

Madonna was so eager to move on from her debut and release her second album, Like a Virgin, that, during an on-air interview with MTV, she publicly hexed her latest single, “Borderline,” hoping it would “fizzle out.” No such luck. The song became...

Following the recent end of the Covid-19 public health emergency, 2023 has been a transitional year for most people, signaling a return to some sort of normalcy. But even the so-called “new normal” has left many struggling to keep their bearings in a world that’s changing at an ever-rapid pace. This limbo state is unsurprisingly reflected in some the year’s best films, which catch characters in a state of in-betweenness as they search for everything from social acceptance and professional stability to sexual liberation and emotional restoration.

Just as characters in many of our favorite films of the year so far have found themselves in the midst of some form of metamorphosis, so, too, have filmmakers been discovering new ways of seeing, whether through stylistic innovation or genre reinvention. Our list includes works that have reconfigured what animated and found footage films can accomplish, as well as challenged our preconceived notions of cinematic structure.

Seven years ago this month, in the aftermath of the attack on Orlando’s Pulse nightclub, one call to action rose above the din: “Say their names.” New Yorkers chanted it steps from the Stonewall Inn. The mother of a child gunned down at Sandy Hook penned it in an open letter. The Orlando Sentinel printed the names. Anderson Cooper recited them. A gunman, 29-year-old Omar Mateen, murdered 49 people and wounded 53 others in the wee hours of that awful Sunday, massacring LGBTQ people of color and their allies in the middle of Pride Month, and the commemoration of the dead demanded knowing who they were. “These,” as MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell urged his viewers, “are the names to remember.”

The titles on our list of the best LGBTQ movies of all time are a globe-spanning, multigenerational testament to our existence in a world where our erasure is no abstraction. From...

A full Free Movie of the Day is posted on the JoBlo Horror Movies YouTube channel every day of the week – but on Fridays things get even freakier and a little more fun. Get your weekend started the right way by indulging in Friday Fright Nights! Every Friday, we’ll be taking a look at another genre movie you can watch in its entirety, free of charge, either on the YouTube channel linked above or in the video embed here.

The Friday Fright Night feature we have for you this week is an example of the sort of movie we need more of. It’s the found footage Bigfoot movie The Wild Man! No, I’m definitely not saying we need more found footage movies. I’m not a fan of the found footage style in general, so I did appreciate the fact that The Wild Man will occasionally break...

The first Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody reviews are in, and they appear to be quite mixed. From Harriet director Kasi Lemmons and Bohemian Rhapsody screenwriter Anthony McCarten, the new musical biopic chronicles the life and career of Whitney Houston, taking its title from the American pop icon's 1987 hit song. The film features Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker's Naomi Ackie as Whitney Houston, along with Stanley Tucci, Ashton Sanders, Tamara Tunie, Nafessa Williams, and Clarke Peters in supporting roles.

With I Wanna Dance with Somebody's release right around the corner, critics are beginning to publish their reviews. At the time of writing, the film is sitting in the low 40 range on Rotten Tomatoes, which is sure to fluctuate. What's clear is that I Wanna Dance with Somebody's reviews are decidedly mixed, with many praising Whitney Houston's music and Ackie's performance, while also criticizing just about everything else,...

On the JoBlo Movies YouTube channel, we will be posting one full movie every day of the week, giving viewers the chance to watch them entirely free of charge. Today’s Free Movie of the Day is the Bigfoot horror film The Wild Man, which was just first released by Terror Films at the end of September. You can watch it over on the YouTube channel linked above, or you can just watch it in the embed at the top of this article.

Directed by Ryan Justice from a screenplay by Sean Michael Gloria and Ian Longen, The Wild Man has the following synopsis:

Young women have been going missing in Ochopee, Fl, without a single suspect in custody. A young journalist, Sara, convinces her crew to join her investigation as she travels to Ochopee to document her discoveries, but they soon realize their presence in this town is not welcome.

Terror Films is planning to give the Bigfoot horror movie The Wild Man a digital release on September 30th, and with just a couple weeks left to go before that date arrives we’ve gotten our hands on a trailer for the film. You can check it out in the embed above!

Directed by Ryan Justice (the 2017 film Followers) from a screenplay by Sean Michael Gloria and Ian Longen, The Wild Man has the following lengthy synopsis:

Young women have been going missing in Ochopee, Fl, without a single suspect in custody. A young journalist, Sara, convinces her crew to join her investigation as she travels to Ochopee to document her discoveries, but they soon realize their presence in this town is not welcome. Sara convinces her friends to stick with her, because they’re onto something big. Upon meeting Dale, the town’s notorious conspiracy theorist, she’s convinced...