When the world became industrialized, the landscape of the world, both economically and culturally, drastically changed. The shift increased the size and influence of corporations worldwide which in turn led to floods of ambitious businessmen looking to work for powerful entities. This influx of people and money formed the modern day corporate culture, filled with […]
Month: July 2015
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10 Reasons Why Stanley Kubrick Is The Greatest Director Who Ever Lived
Kubrick reigns supreme. He is the top of the pantheon. His is a unique, irreplaceable vision and he died before his time, leaving an incomparable legacy of films that have stood the test for generations. As inscrutable he may outwardly be, he is not a complete cipher. Many internal themes and visual leitmotifs that remained […]
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10 Great Movies Where The Villain Gets Away With It
Ever since the advent of cinema, as well as any other form of storytelling, the moral of a story equals its purpose. Viewers search for meaning, something they can explain as a consequence of what they have seen. Happy endings are incredibly more common than sad or morbid ones, yet there are exceptions that often […]
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15 Hidden Gems of World Cinema That Deserve More Attention
Hidden Gems are those films that have a very small, but passionate following. A variety of reasons cause this: style of filmmaking, lack of distribution, discrimination against the country/gender/race of the director, etc. This list is devoted to bringing some of those films as well as providing ways to access them. Without further ado, here […]
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15 Great Movies With A Mrs. Robinson Complex
The term “Mrs. Robinson” usually refers to romances between older women and much younger boys. It originates from Anne Bancroft’s portrayal of the seductive and lewd older woman in 1967’s “The Graduate”. The women in these relationships share an overall dissatisfaction with not only men their own age, but with their personal lives. Most are […]
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25 Comedic Movie Performances that Deserved an Oscar Nomination
The comedy film is a balancing act between the goofy and the sublime, the funny and the tragic. For a genre so specific and nuanced, it’s odd how little respect comedies get. Dramas, for instance, usually get much more critical attention, and at awards time, few comedies, if any, receive recognition. This is especially true […]