2019 has been a phenomenal year for cinema, and while it’s always exciting to see first time and up and coming directors leave their mark, much of the attention this year has been rightly focused on the living legends who have delivered some of their finest work. It’s often hard for a great director to […]
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10 Great 2019 Movies You May Have Missed
2019 has been a great epilogue to this decade of movies, and as a result of the many great films released this year, some have fallen through the cracks and gone overlooked. There are many reasons why a film is overlooked- poor marketing campaigns, small budgets, middling reviews, disinterested audiences, and competition from other popular […]
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6 Reasons Why “Chinatown” Is The Best Neo-Noir Movie Ever
If the crucial encounter between Jack Nicholson, the star of “Chinatown”; Robert Towne, the screenwriter of the film; Robert Evans, the influential Paramount producer; and last but not least Roman Polanski was featured in Paolo Coelho’s book, it would be dismissed with terminal condescendence by all critics. It would no doubt be considered either some blatantly manipulative […]
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The 20 Best Movie Opening Scenes of The 2010s
It’s hard to overstate the burden borne by a movie’s opening. The best ones are mini-treatises — bold statements that tie together plot and theme to give audiences a sense of where they’re going while getting them excited for the journey. The worst ones simply have us reach for the off button. In the 2010s, […]
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10 Great Movies To Watch If You Liked “The Irishman”
Since mob and gangster genres have been done to death, we’re rarely getting them anymore. But this year Martin Scorsese finally brought one of his passion projects to life; now we have “The Irishman” and it’s a glorious masterpiece. Scorsese has given us some of the best mob films of all time – “Goodfellas,” “Casino,” […]
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The 10 Best Italian Films of The 2010s
From its early days to far into the 20th century, Italian cinema has sculpted the world of film and has given birth to numerous influential movements, filmmakers and movie masterpieces. Unfortunately, between the 1980s and 2000s, the amount of great films that came from Italy has considerably diminished. Of course, we still had the likes […]