Since the genesis of cinema, the crime genre has unfalteringly persisted as a firm favourite among audiences worldwide. Although the ‘40s or the ‘90s are often referenced as great times for noir and neo-noir cinema, respectively, the 2010s boasts its own hefty share of crime classics. Most movie fans are already familiar with well-publicised triumphs […]
Author: Jack Ramsay
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The 10 Most Underrated Comedy Movies of The 2010s
When people think of the golden age of comedy movies, they often reference the Marx Brothers’ 1930s or Bill Murray’s 1980s. Some critics relish in assigning reductive, patronising labels: “you couldn’t make a film like that any more,” “it was of its time,” “that was back when movies were still good,” “the industry was different […]
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The 10 Most Underrated Western Movies of The 2010s
“Probably more than any other genre that there is, even though they take place a hundred and something years ago, westerns reflect the decade in which they were made,” asserts Quentin Tarantino. “The westerns of the ‘50s reflected an Eisenhower America. Or, consequently, the ‘70s reflected a Watergate era.” For a western title to be […]
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All 5 Martin McDonagh Movies Ranked From Worst To Best
“All my work shares a balance between black comedy and sad, despairing melancholy.” – Martin McDonagh. London Irishman Martin McDonagh began his career in the mid-‘90s as a playwright – an enfant terrible of the inflammatory ‘In-yer-face theatre’ movement. His blood-spattered dramas, such as The Beauty Queen of Leenane, are chiefly set on or off […]
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All 10 Kathryn Bigelow Movies Ranked From Worst To Best
“She is interested in the ways her characters live dangerously for philosophical reasons.” – Roger Ebert on Bigelow’s films. California-born Kathryn Bigelow began as an artist, before transitioning in to making short films. In the ‘80s, she directed two cult neo-noir pictures, before establishing herself as cinema’s finest author of action movies. More recently, she’s […]
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All 7 Yorgos Lanthimos Movies Ranked From Worst To Best
“Me, personally, what I want is to allow people to be engaged actively in watching the film. I like to construct films in a way that makes you feel a bit uncomfortable, [but so you’ll still] be able to enjoy them, be intrigued [and] start to think about the meaning of things – and hopefully […]