“It’s beautiful, actually…” – Nina Darren Aronofsky was raised culturally Jewish and he is familiar with Jewish history and religion. He is an environmentalist and he studied social anthropology. He started his career with “Pi”, a film that is more of a study in madness than a work that contemplates scientific subjects, although it deals […]
Month: September 2017
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10 Movies You Should Watch If You Liked “The Lobster”
Among the most acclaimed films from 2015, “The Lobster” is a dystopian drama and another hit in director Yorgos Lanthimos’ career after his film “Dogtooth”, released in 2009. In “The Lobster”, people are prohibited from being single in the near future. If anyone is not engaged in a romantic relationship they are taken to The […]
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All 16 Tobe Hooper Movies Ranked From Worst To Best
After making one of–if not the–most influential horror film of all time, where’s a director to go from there? Tobe Hooper, who passed away on August 27, seemed to spend the rest of his career pondering just that question. After 1974’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre–Hooper’s first narrative feature film–changed the horror genre forever onscreen, it […]
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The 10 Best Movies With Heart-Wrenching Endings
If there is one truly astounding quality about cinema, it is its inherently relative nature. For one individual, a particular film can hold immeasurable significance, moving them to cry, laugh, drown in nostalgia, or feel a range of other various emotions, whereas for another that same specific film will not resonate nearly as powerfully. As […]
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All 13 Michael Mann Movies Ranked From Worst To Best
We must speak about institutionalization, what this really means and what is lost in the process. Perhaps we should first look at the most memorable institutionalized figure of cinema: Brooks Hatlen, a character from “The Shawshank Redemption”. When he finally gained his freedom after spending most of his life in prison, he would carve his […]
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The 10 Best Long Movies of The 21st Century
Films are seen by most as nothing more than a mere form of entertainment, a method to kill a lazy Sunday afternoon or many a sleepless night. Films are also considered by some to be a form of art, a meticulous reality crafted by an individual for audiences to immerse themselves in, taking in theme, […]