All 6 Peter Jackson’s Middle-Earth Movies Ranked From Worst To Best

Peter Jackson’s adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s influential fantasy saga was one the most ambitious film projects ever made. Regarded as one of the most unfilmable book series ever written (including an alleged attempt by The Beatles with Stanley Kubrick), it took about eight years of continuous work for Jackson and his team to prove everyone […]

7 Reasons Why “L.A. Confidential” is a Modern Masterpiece of American Cinema

In recent years, those who have an avid interest in vintage Hollywood films are inevitably drawn to two movements or periods in the history of American pictures. One is now tagged the “pre-code” era, the roughly five years of relaxed censorship at the dawn of sound in the very late 1920s and early 1930s. The […]

15 One-Time Director-Actor Collaborations We’d Like to See More of

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Looking at some of the best pairs of frequently collaborating actors and directors, i.e. Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune, Paul Thomas Anderson and Philip Seymour Hoffman, Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski or Federico Fellini and Giulietta Masina, there’s a clear chemistry that extents from the front to the back of the camera. The relationships we […]