The Matrix is in the news again, with details that Warner Bros. are looking to expand its universe. They have a difficult path ahead, as the original film ranks as one of the most influential science-fiction movies of all time. Taking philosophical cues from both Rene Descartes and the postmodernist Jean Baudrillard, the Wachowski’s created […]
Month: March 2017
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The 10 Worst Late Movie Sequels of All Time
It’s no novelty that Hollywood loves sequels. Even though franchise-creating is a growing obsession in American and world cinema in the 21st century, it has been a thing for much, much longer. The sequels on this list, however, are anomalies – they were made a long time after their original films, and the lack of […]
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7 Reasons Why “Split” Is Shyamalan’s Career Comeback Movie
M. Night Shyamalan’s career trajectory is a product of the unforgiving American cinematic industry; the weird mechanisms of Internet irony that belittles and ridicules; and a brand of cinema that lies between Spielberg-ian imaginative morality tales with a spiritual undertone, a love for Hitchcock and the classics of suspense, and an appreciation for the B-movie […]
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All 10 David Lynch Movies Ranked From Worst To Best
This list should be prefaced with the assertion that the ‘worst’ of David Lynch’s films is a very different idea to the worst of many other directors’ respective back catalogues. Each time that David Lynch has taken the helm on a feature film, the result has been something adventurous, challenging and, most importantly provoking discussion […]
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10 Movie Characters With Weird Jobs You’ve Never Heard Of
There are millions of jobs out there – some common, others not so much. And so the same goes for fictional characters in films. A lot of thought goes into the character’s creation, including the assignment of their occupation, even if the plot doesn’t necessarily revolve around it. This is because, of course, it is […]
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8 Reasons Why “The Proposition” is a Modern Classic of Western Cinema
Throughout much of the middle of the 20th Century that made up the Golden Age of Hollywood, the most popular and financially successful film genre was the Western. In this time, John Wayne was one of the biggest box office draws, and films like Stagecoach, High Noon, The Searchers, and The (original) Magnificent Seven were […]