Over recent years, Jake Gyllenhaal has become one of the most trustworthy working actors whose movies you’ll watch solely because his name is on the poster (if anyone still picks movies that way). Even when he appears in mediocre movies, you can be sure he’ll give a stellar performance, always giving 110 percent to whatever […]
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20 Great Movie Classics You’ve Probably Never Seen
Since we can all be a little pretentious about the films we have seen, here is a list of films you can really turn your nose up to other film buffs about. “Oh, you haven’t seen this? Are you serious? Wow. I thought you loved movies.” These are all remarkable films without getting the attention […]
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10 Movie Franchises That Peaked In Their First Outing
Franchises are a way of life in cinema. They’ve been around since the earliest days of cinema, but they’ve become more important to studios since “Star Wars” was birthed in the 70s. The usual thinking with franchises is that the first movie is usually the best and there is a case of diminishing returns as […]
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10 Great Movies Whose Stories Are Not So Good
Before the advent of the star system, the best marketing argument for a film was its plot. Did the story promise incandescent romance, heart-stopping adventure or an expedition to the most far-flung corners of the world? Then it attracted audiences without further hesitation. But the star system slightly changed the rules of the game. The […]
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The 10 Most Overrated Movies of 2018 (So Far)
As the second decade of the 21st century gets closer to its end, a clearer idea of its main characteristics is forming among movie viewers and experts. The last eight years have been the years of Netflix and others streaming platforms. Movies are not something you can see either in theaters or television anymore: they […]
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10 Movie Masterpieces That Can Teach You Everything About Cinema
The relatively short history of cinema makes it both challenging and exciting to study. Because film is a fairly modern art form, its repository of instructional material is naturally limited. We have no archaic, impenetrable texts to preserve under lock and key in museums, and though there are schools of film they are mostly first […]