It didn’t take long for cinema to discover the power of music, and the possibility of a crucial cinematic moment taking the emotional factor to ecstatic levels, through the use of a musical piece. Many times, when a film needs to disclose an emotion that has been carefully built through various sequences, but needs to […]
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The 20 Best Film Scores of The 21st Century (So Far)
After having already done a list about the 20 Best Soundtracks of the Century so far, it really only seemed natural to do one on original scores. The criteria is quite clear: the music needs to be an original composition. It wasn’t an easy list to narrow down and writing it has proven just how […]
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The 10 Most Philosophical Sci-fi Movies of All Time
Just like surrealism and fantastic realism, science fiction is a genre that allows a great degree of creative freedom, since the narrative is not bound by the constraints of present-day reality. Thus, it provides a fertile ground for all sorts of allegories, metaphors, and alternative realities, as well as a way of bypassing censorship. The […]
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The 20 Best Non-Hollywood War Movies of All Time
War is hell and since its beginning, cinema has tried to replicate the horrors experienced by those who have witnessed it. From the perspective of soldiers, civilians, prisoner’s of war, leaders and children, both biographical and fictional and under many sub-genres. Those that have had the fortune to never experience war manage to gain a […]
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The 10 Best Movies About Humanity’s Relationship With Technology
As technology continues to play an increasingly dominant role in everyday life, the question is raised: What effect will it all have on the future? The ten films on this list all attempted to answer that query. All of them gaze into the future and speculate on humanity’s evolving relationship with technology. The tendency is […]
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The 20 Best Movie Henchmen of All Time
The earliest known origin of the term henchman dates back to the 1300’s, coming from the Old English word, hengest, literally meaning ‘horse’, and referring to an employee, otherwise known as a groom, who would tend to a master’s animals. Later the term would often be used to describe a page or hand scribe, before […]