At Taste of Cinema we’ve done a lot of lists that looked at the vast film knowledge of director and film buff Quentin Tarantino; maybe the director with the most film trivia ingrained in his brain. In Edgar Wright he has a worthy challenger though, since more and more we come in contact with the […]
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The 10 Best Netflix Original Movies of 2020
Due to the closure of major theater chains across the world, Netflix became a haven for film-lovers last year. As the dominant streaming service, people flocked to see what kind of exclusives were available to watch at the click of a button. With major delays upending big blockbuster releases, countless streaming services had to step […]
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The 10 Most Influential Horror Movies of The 1970s
Though each passing decade has uniquely changed the face of film, the seventies undeniably sent shockwaves through the cinematic landscape. Movie screens still reverberate today from the aftershocks, and nowhere are the effects felt more profoundly than in the horror genre. The loosening of censorship restraints broke the mold for what could be shown on […]
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The 10 Best Films of Robert Bresson
Robert Bresson (1901-1999) was among the most unique directors of the European arthouse, with a working theory of cinematic purity (outlined in his 1975 Notes sur le cinématographe) that rejected all the dramatic convention he considered archaic holdover from the theatre, to make exclusive use of the unique capacities of the film medium, namely the […]
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The 9 Best Horror Movies That Take Place In Daylight
For as long as horror movies have existed, darkness has been the standard-setting to quickly and easily establish threat and malice. Being afraid of the dark is widely seen as a normal part of growing up and can be used as a universal shorthand for fear. It’s coded into every facet of our society. Darkness […]
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10 Great Japanese Movies You May Have Never Seen
When writing the previous “10 great underseen Japanese movies” list, it quickly became clear that 10 films are just a fraction of the amount of brilliant underseen Japanese movies that are out there just waiting to be explored. The list talked about movies from 10 different directors in a variety of genres, but still it […]