Author: Chris Wade

The 1980s were a lucrative time for American cinema, a decade in where films were consistently making previously unimaginable sums of money at the box office. Largely unpoliticized, much of the most popular cinema of the 1980s was about having a good time, living a rich and fulfilled life, overcoming the odds, and getting the […]

Though we might think we are not that far into the 21st century, we are in fact nearly a quarter way through it already. Naturally, of course, that means that there are already 20 plus years of cinema to investigate from the new millennium alone, a time span which contains numerous masterpieces, more than a […]

Though we all know America wasn’t the only country putting out solid cinema through the the 1970s, one cannot deny that Hollywood was going through a new golden period. Independent features and major studio films alike were garnering critical acclaim while also getting bums on to cinema seats, in what was arguably the richest and […]

As a teenager in the 1990s, one was aware that American cinema was experiencing something of a golden renaissance, a period in which indie cinema and mainstream blockbusters could exist together and get along. There was room for both, and in fact the average cinema buff could healthily sample the mainstream and the independent, and […]

Given how many films are released these days, it’s understandable that many of them go under the radar and end up becoming completely forgotten. For every box office hit or critical success of the 2000 to 2009 era, there are tons of movies that died at the theatres and received an often unfair kicking from […]