“The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.” –Roy Ayers (jazz vibraphone player) The follow list contains an eclectic mix of music documentaries that capture each of the performers and bands in all their pure, raw energies and celebrate unsung legacies. They […]
Month: March 2016
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15 Great Movies That Realistically Portray Mental Illness
“I am tired of hiding, tired of misspent and knotted energies, tired of the hypocrisy, and tired of acting as though I have something to hide.” – Kay Redfield Jamison Cinema of all ages has always been interested in mad characters and the portrayal of insanity. We fear madness, but at the same time its […]
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10 Fascinating Movies Set Among Ruins
Ruins are physical traces of a past that no longer exists. They can be entire cities, levelled by natural disaster, or villages ravaged by war; in fiction, ruins can take an even greater variety of forms, from the aftermath of apocalypse to disintegrating fantasy worlds. Ruins make for powerful images in cinema because they are […]
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10 Great Action B-Movies Worth Your Time
The action genre came to prominence in the 80’s. Someone figured out that you could save a lot of money if you had a leading man with either martial arts skills or a buff physique, preferably both. Enters stars like Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jean-Claude van Damme, Dolph Lundgren and Steven Seagal. The films starring these men […]
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The 10 Best Sherlock Holmes Movies of All Time
Having been portrayed on screen in excess of two hundred and fifty times, producing any list of film titles featuring Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes (who first appeared in print in 1887) is no easy task. The earliest known Homes film is thought to be Sherlock Holmes Baffled a thirty-five second U.S short made […]
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The 10 Best Arnold Schwarzenegger Movie Quotes
If you are expecting to read anything poignant, philosophical or deep in any way, this is not the list for you. Ever since he burst on to the action scene in the 1980s, Arnold Schwarzenegger has had a commanding screen presence never seen before. His physical action style combined with his deadpan, Austrian-accented line delivery […]