10 Movies That Could Have Been Masterpieces But Are Not

Mediocre movies are easy to dismiss. They come and go routinely, and we watch them and forget about them without a second thought. Because they take few risks, their successes and failures are similarly unremarkable, and, consequently, they’re consumed dispassionately without a second thought. Then there are movies too extraordinary to disappear into obscurity but […]

The 20 Most Prolific Directors in Cinema History

Orson Welles and Stanley Kubrick did it 12 times each. Andrei Tarkovsky, Carl Theordore Dreyer and France’s renowned comic director Pierre Etaix managed it about half that many times apiece. Etaix’s inspiration, the great Jacques Tati only got to the number five. Jean Vigo, Charles Laughton and Marlon Brando only pulled it off once each. […]

10 Movie Remakes That Are Actually Better Than The Original

The word ‘remake’ gets a general knee-jerk reaction of scorn and sighing from movie buffs worldwide. It’s a fully valid reaction since it’s easily the laziest form of filmmaking, essentially skipping the process of creating something new by simply rehashing something old. Still, that’s no reason that a remake cannot surpass its originator, and on […]