With theaters still closed in many places, that incredible Empire issue highlighting the cinema-going experiences of some of Hollywood’s best is still fresh on our minds. Recently a list of horror films recommended by Edgar Wright was posted in honor of it, but naturally we couldn’t stop there. On Wright’s list of 1,000 favorites alone, […]
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10 Great Movies That Subvert Color Theory
In film, rules are meant to be broken. Color theory is one of the most well-known guides in all of cinema. The general premise that certain colors matched with a specific brightness, saturation, and value will elicit certain emotional reactions from the audience has been followed by many and worked very well. But for more […]
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The 10 Most Underrated Movies of The 1990s
In an exhilarating decade that gave movie-goers films like Pulp Fiction, The Matrix, Titanic, Silence of the Lambs, Do the Right Thing, and so much more, the film industry in the 1990’s was blowing up with revolutionary ideas and filmmakers. However, even in an era of success, there were also films that quietly sat on […]
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10 Great Drama Movies That Unfold Like Thrillers
Sometimes a film – in this case, a drama – can contain so much tension and suspense that we are white knuckling it throughout its runtime. These films don’t cross over into another genre but strictly focus on the people at hand – that’s the main interest, not set pieces or crazy plot twists. Here […]
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10 Great Westerns You’ve Probably Never Seen
The film industry was flooded with westerns from the mid-1930s’ the whole way up through the 1970s’. For decades, every week after week, audiences would see the release of multiple new westerns at their cinema and these themes and motifs became ingrained in our pop culture and modern entertainment. So many great films fell to […]
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10 Films To Watch To Understand Montage Theory
Montage Theory, the staple of college Cinema Studies classes, holds that the juxtaposition of images via editing can make meaning beyond what can be represented visually. Described by Soviet filmmakers in the 1920s, who sought to apply their new country’s philosophy (dialecticism) to this exciting new art form of cinema, montage theory has since found […]