“We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.” – Stephen King Horror movies seem to promote a strong reaction either way. You either love them or hate them. For those who enjoy them, there are also many subtle genres within horror to enjoy like suspense, thriller, gothic, gory, campy, body horror, […]
Month: April 2016
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The 10 Best Uses of The Beatles Songs in Movies
You would be hard pressed to find a music act that has had as big of an influence as The Beatles. Being active as a band for just ten years, the variation and massive success of their work (that experimented with pop ballads, hard rock and psychedelia) has led to their immortal and untouchable stature […]
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15 Great Foreign Films Snubbed by the Oscars in the Past Five Years
When it comes to the yearly awards season, namely the Academy Awards, things get a little claustrophobic. The number of films that end up getting nominated is a small number given the potential, with last year’s Oscars showing the echo chamber the voters are in, as out of a possible 48, only 19 different films […]
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The 10 Best Movies That Take Place Underwater
There is no term for the fear of drowning because, if there were, it would probably be “everyone has this.” There’s aquaphobia, which is pretty self-explanatory, but there’s another phobia, thalassophobia—this is the fear of deep, dark water specifically. Sufferers of thalassophobia will feel uneasy at the thought of being a distance from land, or […]
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The 10 Best Space Movies of All Time
Cinema has been interested in the outer reaches of space ever since the beginning of the medium. George Melies’s Un voyage dans la lune/A trip to the Moon (1902) is probably the first film that tackled the theme of space exploration, and, ironically, humanity is still not able to get pass the Moon. In cinema, […]
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The 10 Worst Adam Sandler Movies
Though he did have a few detractors when he was on Saturday Night Live between 1990 and 1995, nothing could have prepared us for the career New York-born comedian Adam Sandler would go on to have. The public keeps enabling him, with his films performing relatively well for comedies, especially in the franchised Grown Ups […]