Action movies are historically built upon a foundation of ultra-masculine men performing superhuman feats. Because of this – far more than any other genre – they’re prone to being comically over-the-top and borderline campy. These ten cheesy cult films – some intentionally goofy, others not so much – rank among the finest that action cinema […]
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10 Great Tearjerker Art Films That Will Make You Cry
There’s a certain underlying derisiveness in calling a movie a “tearjerker”; the term suggests excessive sentimentality and manufactured emotion, a movie carefully designed to get viewers to bawl their eyes out. A tearjerker can double as a genuinely great film though when that emotion is earned, and these ten films surely put in the work […]
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10 Insane Camp-Classic Films You Must See
Campy films don’t appeal to everyone, but there’s certainly a devoted audience for that brand of kitschy artifice and over-the-top style. For those who can appreciate some excess in their art, these ten underrated masterpieces of camp are absolute must-sees. 1. Barbarella (1968, Roger Vadim) There’s a fun test of gender equality in films […]
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The 15 Most Enigmatic Movies of All Time
Not all great films end neatly. Many directors choose to end their films abruptly or with unanswered questions, forcing audiences to watch, rewatch, and obsess over them until they can make sense of it for themselves – and sometimes even then the film is still inscrutable. For a filmmaker to not reveal all their cards […]
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15 Surreal Cult Movies To See Before You Die
In a time when more and more American films are derivative and formulaic, cult films are a light at the end of the tunnel: bizarre, mysterious, and all-around unconventional, the world of cult film is hugely diverse but unified by one common attribute: diehard fanbases that see the worth in movies too unusual and uncommercial […]
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10 Movies To Watch If You Liked “Drive”
Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive seemed to have come out of nowhere; a relatively unknown Danish director directing an art film starring, of all people, The Notebook star Ryan Gosling sounded like a very hit-or-miss premise. Despite having only Gosling’s star power and an enthusiastic film festival reception to back it up though, the film ended […]