It’s been twenty-five years since Austin-based writer and director Richard Linklater burst onto the indie scene with the shoestring-budgeted, free flowing ‘Slacker’. Since then, he was worked in a variety of genres and different formats. More than anything, he is a very humanist, philosophical storyteller and his stories often focus on both the profound and […]
Month: May 2016
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10 Great Movies That Use Color to Signify a Change in Narrative or Emotion
Colour, in film, has gone on quite a journey: from the trivial and fanciful use of colour in early cinema, to the tonal and emotional, then the realistic and over-sober, and back to its comfortable middle-ground of visceral engagement. The first uses of colour came in the form of film tinting, whereby a part of […]
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10 Non-Beatles Movies Featuring a Beatle
The Fab Four are the most famous band in pop history, yet they also have a large presence in the history of film. From their classic 1964 flick A Hard Day’s Night through the zany pop art of 1965’s Help! and onto the whimsical psychedelia of both Magical Mystery Tour (1967) and the animated Yellow […]
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20 Great Underground Horror Movies You Might Not Have Seen
Underground horror is the epitome of independent cinema. Shot on shoestring budgets, mostly self-distributed, and reliant on word-of-mouth for promotion, these films are as DIY as you can get. With the constraints that come with operating on a limited budget, it’s easy to dismiss these films as amateur and incompetent, but that couldn’t be further […]
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The 10 Best Kate Winslet Movie Performances
Many refer to Kate Winslet as the natural heir to Meryl Streep’s Oscar tradition. In fact, at 40 years old and on her seventh nomination for the Academy Awards, Winslet is not far behind Streep, even though the American actress already had two statuettes (out of eight nods) at home by that time on her […]
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The 30 Best Lines from Best Picture Winners
“Great movie quotes become part of our cultural vocabulary. When you consider that any phrase from American film is eligible, you realize this is our most subjective topic to date. We expect nothing less than a war of words as we reignite interest in classic American movies.” – Jean Picker Firstenberg (President Emerita, American Film […]