Movie titles need to be snappier than book titles to grab attention on marquees. Sometimes title changes clarify the movie's content, making them clearer and more concise. For example, Blade ...

With the release of “Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant,” here’s a look at the occasional phenomenon of directors branding movies with their own names. By Leah Greenblatt He turned Will Smith into ...

In no way do I believe a movie is only as good as its title and, in fact, I believe many of the films I have listed here are pretty good, if not great. However, if it were up to me, I would have ...

Today, we’re celebrating those movies whose titles give us absolutely nothing; phrases or even made-up words and names that might not even be revealed in the actual film, whose meaning you have ...

But something feels different about this new batch of titles. Sure, there were movies with names like these back in the day, like Alien (with the best sequel title ever, Aliens).

A good title isn’t going to save an unwatchable movie. But in the online world, a catchy name has potential to propel a film into the zeitgeist (see “M3GAN”), just as a clunky one can send a ...

The 10 Best Moments When a Movie Name-Drops Its Own Title. IndieWire picks the best title drops in classic film history — and hears from John Waters about his own favorites.

It got us thinking – as these things tend to do – about all the movie titles that contain names of various greater Capital Region municipalities, big and small.