Months after John Carpenter announced his involvement in a planned Halloween reboot, the production has acquired several key personnel and they’re far from the usual suspects. Taking the reins of the new movie will be David Gordon Green (Pineapple Express, Our Brand Is Crisis) with Danny McBride (This Is The End) the only confirmed cast […]
Month: May 2017
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10 Directors Who Will Own The Next 10 Years
Kevin Bacon once said, “A good director creates an environment, which gives the actor the encouragement to fly.” As for the performers associated with the directors on this list, there’s no doubt several sets of wings were grown. These creators have depicted the struggles of young artists in Hollywood, a cursed oil man in the […]
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6 Reasons Why “Raging Bull” Is The Best Biopic of All Time
The iconic film “Raging Bull”, released in 1980 and directed by Martin Scorsese, has an unflinching realism and brutal honesty to it, captured in a surreal black-and-white world of anger, violence and redemption. Based on the real-life story of middleweight boxer Jake LaMotta, the film is less cinema and more like a documentary disguised as […]
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10 Totally Awesome Movies From The 2000s You May Have Missed
The 2000s created a new freedom for artists as the cost of filmmaking lowered considerably thanks to the lowering costs of digital effects and shooting on digital film. Meanwhile, the film market–having gotten used to the flood of low-budget but high-quality indie fare that became popular in the 90s–was still hungry for original content. As […]
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8 Reasons Why “Unforgiven” is the Best Western Since 1980
Westerns, generally speaking, are considered a less popular genre than they once were and too often have less-than-stellar box office returns. Nonetheless, many incredible Westerns have been made in the last 25 or so years. 3:10 to Yuma, Open Range, The Proposition, Bone Tomahawk, Hell or High Water, The Assassination of Jesse James by the […]
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The 8 Best Isabelle Adjani Movie Performances
Upon her transition from roles in La comédie française to silver screen performances, French actress Isabelle Adjani quickly established herself as the melancholic darling of European art house cinema of the 1970s and 1980s, before crossing into the territory of historical epics in the years to follow. In what is best described as typecasting done […]