At the latest Academy Awards, Spotlight took home Best Picture but it’s director Tom McCarthy went home empty handed in his respective category, with Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu being named Best Director for the second year in a row. This split between Picture and Director has become an increasingly common occurrence in the last five years but […]
Day: March 7, 2016
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The 10 Best Neo-Noir Films of The 2010s (So Far)
For all its visual baggage of fedoras and femme fatales, film noir has acclimated quite well to the modern age. Musicals, westerns, and gangster movies have since come and gone, leaving these dimly lit crime drama to trudge on alone as part of the international psyche. Granted, the trenchcoats and “copper” talk have been swapped […]
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10 Famous Movies That Were Banned for Bizarre Reasons
Commonly accepted standards of decency and rectitude vary wildly throughout the world and have changed enormously as the decades have passed. Foul language, blasphemy and displays of flesh that wouldn’t raise an eyebrow in New York, Tokyo or Paris today would have caused public outrage in Amsterdam, Chicago or London thirty or forty years ago. […]