Everyone has to start somewhere. Geniuses are not born with knowledge, but come to it by their ability to absorb, retain, and apply that which they learned. We all know Kubrick was the typical ne’er-do-well who did poorly in school. His loathing for institutionalized learning was legendary. Home movies show he was affable — even […]
Year: 2015
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10 Great Films That Use The Optimal Level of Violence
When letting violence loose in a film pins it to a very specific, limited option of genres, choosing the measured amount that the plot allows becomes the difference between a forgettable work of art and a masterpiece imprinted in our psyche, even if remembered by one crucial, violent scene. Physical aggression, implied murder, slight gore […]
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20 Great Canadian Cult Films You May Not Have Seen
Canuxploitation is the primary keyword when talking about Canadian Cult films, and much like any other exploitation genre, Canuxploitation covers all sorts of different genres. Canada has definitely produced some rather strange cult movies, whether they’re films from body horror master David Cronenberg or bizarre kids films, Canada surely has something for every cult movie […]
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The 18 Best Films Set in Berlin
It’s one of cinema’s greatest ironies that Hollywood benefited greatly from Germany’s arguably self-inflicted tragedies. Many great German directors who had made their names in Berlin fled to America during the nazi period, and ended up making some of Hollywood’s most memorable films. Billy Wilder and Fritz Lang are the most famous examples. These directors […]
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10 Subtle Film References You Might Not Have Noticed in Famous Movies
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then cinema is the ultimate round of applause. Since its inception, cinema has been sprinkled with references to other art forms. Cinema itself combines different disciplines of art like music, photography, painting, and acting to tantalize and satisfy multiple senses. Though there are tons and tons of […]
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The 20 Best Genre Films Of 2015 So Far
Generally speaking, all movies are by essence genre movies as they will inadvertently belong to a type of movie with its own type of rules, which of course makes the genre what it is. A romantic comedy is by right a genre movie as more often than not it has similarities with other movies of […]