15 Forgotten Movie Masterpieces of The 1980s

In general, the 80s are not regarded as a decade of “fine film arts,” cinematographic mastership, or, in general, great movies. The cliché goes: Those films are dull, superficial, and weak on content. The 80s marked a significant shift in the Hollywood film industry. The “blockbuster era” with big franchises that were made to attract […]

7 Reasons Why “The Thin Red Line” is a War Masterpiece

Life, let alone show business, is full of strange stories. Surely one of the stranger ones, certainly within the post-studio Hollywood era, would be that of Terrence Malick. Born in Waco, Texas in 1943, the son of an oilman, he is a Harvard-educated Rhodes scholar who double majored in philosophy and journalism and ended up […]