Darren Aronofksy’s latest film is designed to cause an emotional outburst of some variety. It is a nasty attempt to provoke a reaction from every single person watching it in the cinema, and he probably doesn’t care if that outburst is positive or negative: it is the reaction that counts. mother! focuses on Jennifer Lawrence […]
Month: October 2017
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The 15 Most Extreme Horror Movies of All Time
Horror movies are already known for being filled with acts of murder, gory special effects, and disturbing stories. But even within this genre is a subgenre that goes further than the average horror film. Loosely connected under the label “extreme horror,” these films are unbelievably violent and explicit, often teetering on–if not outright garnering–an NC-17 […]
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10 Great Recent Movies With An Original Take On The Zombie Genre
Zombie films have always been a horror staple of cinema. Victor Halperin’s White Zombie was released in 1932 and is often cited as the first zombie film. After that a steady slew of zombie films followed in the thirties, forties and fifties. The zombies in these films were mostly pale, slow moving, obedient and they […]
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10 Great Filmmakers Yet To Win The Best Director Oscar
Stanley Kubrick, Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, and many other great directors from yesteryear have controversially never won a best directing Oscar. How can some of the most influential and legendary directors in film history not be recognized for their directing talents by the Academy? They’ve arguably superseded some of the peers who took home the […]
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The 25 Most Influential Asian Movies Of All Time
The impact of Asian cinema in the international scene is a fact that cannot be doubted; either we are referring to filmmakers basing/copying/adapting/remaking films from the region, or adopting various elements of the style and aesthetics of the Asian masters of the medium. Evidently, the first that come to mind are the Japanese of the […]
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10 Times The Best Picture Oscar Winner Went To Masterpieces
Look: I love the Academy Awards, but I can truly attest to the fact that there are many things wrong with them. Without bringing politics and favouritism into the article (that can be a tome worth reading and writing another day), let’s briefly get into the one issue that any sort of awards or annual […]