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100 Best Dramas of All Time
By Molly Pennington, Stacker
On 3/9/21 at 6:30 PM EST
Dramatic elements elicit strong emotions and pull you into the intimate core of human relationships. Drama as a film category spans a range of genres, including horror, thrillers, noirs, and comedy. These movies can center on heartwarming subjects, be viewed with a tissue in hand, or can take deep dives into serious matters. Dramas force audiences to grapple with issues of morality and the hard choices that govern what's right and wrong.
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The term melodrama has a bad rap as a description for films that are overwrought or sentimental. However, consider how the term "melos," a Greek word for "music," links with drama and becomes a word that captures the way sweeping scores and evocative musical soundtracks work in films that spark deep emotions. It's a drama if it evokes powerful emotions across subjects such as law and order in Westerns, courtroom plots, or gangster narratives. Dramatic themes also show up in animated children's films, classic romances, and dark histories.
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50 Best College Movies of the Last Five Decades
By Kristin Marguerite Doidge, Stacker News
On 2/11/21 at 8:00 PM EST
College movies are a cinema staple, delivering those who attended college doses of nostalgia and those who didn't plenty of drama, comedy, and general mishaps to hold their interest. Films with college as the backdrop often focus on characters who are learning what it means to be an adult for the first time, and these stories rarely feature a smooth journey.
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Stacker gathered popular college movies from IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes, pulling each film's audience-based IMDb rating and critic-based Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer rating. All relevant movies were then ranked based on the Stacker Score metric, which weighs both the IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes measurements equally. The top 50 are presented here and ranked from worst to best. While college isn't always the focus of the films on this list, it is the setting at the very least. Also included are details about how the film and its creators have impacted college students and culture at large.
50 Highest-Grossing Actors Over the Age of 50
By Nicole Johnson, Stacker News
AND Sophia Crisafulli, Stacker News
On 2/9/21 at 8:00 PM EST
In many cases, the passage of years can add value and influence. And that doesn't just go for fine wines or artisan cheese—many Hollywood stars just keep doing better as time goes on. With more films, more awards, and more experience, their value in the industry goes up. Of course, there are those rare cases in which age appears to stop progressing (see: Paul Rudd), but most humans are not quite that lucky.
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Each of the actors on this list continued to achieve acclaim and financial success well after celebrating the big 5-0. For them, age truly is just a number. They have defied the odds and not only managed to remain in an industry that places significance on youth, but they have also managed to continue to prosper well into midlife and beyond. Stacker used data from the-numbers.com to rank these 50 actors according to their total domestic box office earnings, in order from lowest to highest. Voice actors were considered as well, and there are several on the list. It's true that most people will never pull in the kind of cash these actors do, regardless of age. But we can still respect their success and continuing work ethic—and perhaps fantasize about what we would do with that kind of money.