Winning an Oscar is considered one of the biggest honours and accomplishments for an actor – a symbol confirming they’ve made it. And for many actors, obtaining this symbol takes many, many years. Just think of how long it took Leonardo DiCaprio to finally receive his Oscar – more than 10 years, five Best Actor […]
Month: December 2017
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10 Great Movies Unfairly Rated Lower Than 70% on Rotten Tomatoes
As far as online review aggregators for film goes, Rotten Tomatoes is perhaps the most revered, and has been for the last 20 years. The much dreaded Tomatometer, though not indicative of a film’s quality as is iMDB’s rating system per se, but rather, the percentage of critics, professional ones at that, who enjoyed that […]
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The 20 Best Comedy Actors of All Time
From timeless classics to joyful fluff, cinema is a wonderful way to achieve delight, escape, and exhilaration. The following list is for anyone who’s ever watched with delight the madcap tomfoolery of the Marx Brothers, or chuckled to themselves while in line at the grocery store recalling, say, Madeline Kahn’s hilarious crooning in Blazing Saddles […]
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The 10 Best Suspense Movies Of All Time
The suspense genre relies on the audience thinking they might know more than the characters in the film itself. They ask us to take part in the events of the movie, trying to second-guess what could happen next. Most films aren’t truly suspenseful as due to prior film knowledge we can more or less understand […]
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10 Great Movies That Are Ranked Too Low On IMDB Top 250
It is not easy to write an article involving the infamous IMDB’s Top 250 list. First things first: how does that ranking work? Quite simply, a specific formula aggregates regular users’ scores for any given film that receives at least 25000 individual votes, and then frequently updates the list. What remains undisclosed is how a […]
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The 10 Best Movies That Criticize Consumerism
Consumerism is the natural by-product of capitalism. Really, it’s the natural by-product of being alive: we all need things to survive, after all. Food, housing, clothing, from beginning to end it seems it’s our natural state to consume. But living in a capitalist society also complicates the matter, particularly since in an affluent society there’s […]